62 APPLES. 



short, slender, inserted in a small narrow cavity. Skin 

 bright yellow or gold colour on the shaded side, but where 

 exposed to the sun, bright red, breaking out into small 

 patches and stripes^ Flesh pale yellow, firm. Juice not 

 plentiful, sub-acid, combined with a little sugar, but without 

 any particular perfume. 



A good culinary apple from November till May. 



137. GOLDEN PEARMAIN. Forsyth, Ed. 3. No. 58. 

 Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 755. 



Ruckman's Pearmain. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 755. 



Fruit below the middle size, rather conical, a little an- 

 gular on its sides. Eye small, with short obtuse segments 

 of the calyx, placed in a narrow and rather shallow basin. 



Stalk half an inch long, slender, pressed close to the base 

 on one side of its cavity by a large pointed protuberance of 

 the fruit pressing upon it from the opposite side. This is 

 not the case in all the fruit of this sort, but it is so in three 

 out of four throughout the whole crop, and is one of its most 

 distinguishing characters. Skin bright yellow, marbled 

 nearly all over with faint red and orange, highly coloured on 

 the sunny side, and streaked with broken dashes of deeper 

 red. Juice not plentiful, but sacr.bnrinc, of a slight aro- 

 matic flavour. 



A good and handsome dessert apple from October till 

 Christmas. 



138. GRAVENSTEIN. Hort. Trans. Vol. iv. p. 216 

 and 523. t. 21. Pom. Mag. t. 98. 



Fruit large, about three inches and a half in diameter, 

 broadest at the base, generally flattened, sometimes rather 

 oblong, with angles which terminate in the crown. Eye 

 rather wide, sunk in a deep hollow, surrounded by several 

 projecting folds or knobs. Stalk very short, deeply insert- 

 ed. Skin smooth, of a clear yellowish green or straw co- 

 lour, streaked and mottled with red on the sunny side. 

 Flesh pale yellow, crisp, with a highly-flavoured vinous 

 juice. 



A dessert apple, ripening in the autumn, but will keep 

 till April, and may be reckoned a rival to our Ribstone 

 Pippin. 



It is supposed to have or iginated at Gravenstein, in Hoi- 

 stein, near a century ago, and is esteemed the best apple 

 in Germany and the Low Countries. The fruit was first ex-> 

 hibited at the Horticultural Society in 1819. 



139. HANWELL SOURING. Hort. Trans. Vol. iv. p. 219. 

 F\ruit middle-sized, conical, very angular on the sides. 



