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THE SCARLET PEARMAIN APPLE. 



Scarlet Pearmain. Tlott. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 767. 

 Bell's Scarlet, of some Nurseries. 



A valuable table fruit, ripening in September, 

 and keeping till January. Its beauty is quite re- 

 markable, its fertility is great, and its flavour is, if 

 not of the very first quality, such at least as to en- 

 title it to a plac« in every good Garden. 



There is no difference betv^een the Scarlet Pear- 

 main and the Bell's Scarlet Apple of the English 

 Gardens. 



This was lent to the Horticultural Society, and 

 was probably also distributed by the late Mr. Brad- 

 ick, under the name of the Michael Henry Pippin, 

 ^— a very different Apple, of American origin, with 

 a yellow skin. 



Wood weak, light chestnut colour, with small 

 brown spots. 



Leaves taper -pointed, doubly serrated, with 

 slender stalks, and small, linear-lanceolate stipules. 



Fruit middle-sized, conical, of the true Pear- 

 main form. Eye middle-sized, deeply sunk, sur- 

 rounded by small plaits, and crowned by the green 

 persistent calyx. Stalk about an inch long, slen- 

 der, deeply inserted. Colour a rich glowing crim- 

 son on the sunny side ; deep red, with a little yellow 

 intermixed, upon the other. Flesh whitish, crisp, 

 with a pleasant, rich, sugared juice. 



