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THE DEVONSHIRE QUARENDEN APPLE. 



Devonshire Quarenden. Forsyth, no. 122. ed. 7. Hort. Soc. 



Fruit Cat. no. 822. Hooker's Pomona Londhiensis, 



no. 13. 



Red Quarenden, 1 ,. ^^ „ .- 



(of some Lollections. 

 Sack Apple. ... 3 



There is no better Autumn Apple than this, 

 either in point of productiveness, beauty, or excel- 

 lent flavour. As a standard, its crop is always con- 

 siderable ; and if cultivated as a dwarf, the appear- 

 ance of the trees, laden with fruit, is even more an 

 object of ornament than fruit-trees usually are. 



It is fit to gather in the month of August, and in 

 most seasons will last till the end of September. 



It was sent from Devonshire to the Gardens 

 about London, and was probably raised in that 

 county, where it is extensively cultivated. 



Wood moderately long, dark violet brown, 

 woolly or downy, thinly and irregularly sprinkled 

 with linear and roundish specks. 



Leaves ovate -oblong, tapering to the point, 

 irregularly serrated. Petioles rather more than 

 an inch long. Stipules somewhat falcate. 



Flowers opening early, pale, middle-sized. 

 Petals roundish concave. 



Fruit middle-sized, oblate, or round, and de- 

 pressed, the outline tolerably regular. Eye slightly 

 or not at all depressed, entirely closed by the long 



