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inch long, slender, about one half within the base, in a nar- 

 row cavity, and occasionally pressed towards one side, by a 

 protuberance on the opposite one. Skin, when clear, of a 

 bright yellow, but mostly covered with a gray netted russet, 

 rendering the skin scabrous. Flesh greenish yellow, firm, 

 crisp, and tender. Juice saccharine, highly aromatic, and of 

 a most excellent flavour. 



A dessert apple from November till February. 



This neat and very valuable little apple was introduced 

 into notice about thirty years ago by the late Mr. Andrew 

 Siely of Norwich, who had it growing in his garden on the 

 Castle Ditches, and being a favourite with him, he always 

 called it the Pride of the Ditches. The tree is a weak grow- 

 er, and somewhat tender. It is, therefore, advisable to 

 graft it upon the Doucin stock, arid train it either as a dwarf, 

 or as an espalier in the garden. Its name of Siely's Mig- 

 nonne was first published in my Nursery Catalogue of 

 1805. 



189, SWEENEY NONPAREIL. Hort. Trans. Vol. iv. p. 

 526. 



Fruit somewhat in the form of the old Nonpareil, but 

 more irregular in its outline, and larger, about two inches 

 and a half deep, and three inches in diameter. Eye small, 

 perfectly closed by the short segments of the calyx, seated 

 in a narrow and shallow depression, surrounded by a few 

 wrinkled plaits. Stalk an inch long, slender, inserted in a 

 wide but shallow cavity ; and, like the old Nonpareil, it pro- 

 trudes considerably beyond the base. Skin green, with 

 white spots, which become oval round the stock, and patches 

 of russet all over it, having sometimes the brilliant colour 

 of a fine Nonpareil. Flesh firm and crisp, with abundance 

 of juice, in which a powerful acid is combined with much 

 sugar. 



A dessert apple from the middle of November till March. 



This very fine apple was raised by J. N. Parker, Esq. 

 in 1S07, at Sweeney, in Shropshire. The tree is an abun- 

 dant bearer, and the fruit sometimes grows to a large size ; 

 the largest it ever produced was in 1818, measuring eleven 

 inches and a quarter in circumference, and weighing nine 

 ounces and a quarter. Twenty of its fruity exhibited at the 

 Horticultural Society in 1820, weighed seven pounds thir- 

 teen ounces avoirdupois. 



190. SYKEHOUSE RUSSET. Hooker, Pom. Lond. t. 40. 

 Pom. Mag. t. 81.^ 



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