APPLES. 6 



CHAPTER II. 

 APPLES. 



Sect. I. — Summer. Round, or nearly so. 



1. BoRoviTSKY. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 94. ; Pom. Mag. 

 t. 10. 



FrmVmiddle-sized, roundish, and rather angular. Ey eseaXed 

 in a rather large cavity, and surrounded by a few small plaits. 

 Stalk about an inch long, inserted in a deep and rather wide 

 cavity. Skin pale green on the shaded side, sometimes 

 broken by a silvery appearance of the epidermis ; on the 

 sunny side, striped with crimson red on a ground of paJer 

 red ; rather transparent. Flesh white, firm, juicy, with a 

 sweet, brisk, sub-acid, very pleasant flavour. 



An early dessert fruit, ripe the middle of August. This 

 beautiful apple was sent from the Taurida Gardens, near St. 

 Petersburg!!, to the Horticultural Society of London, in 1824. 



2. Early Julien. Hort. Trans. Vol. iv. p. 216. 



Fruit middle-sized, of an irregular globular form, with se- 

 veral ribs or angles on the sides, which become quite promi- 

 nent round the eye. Skin of a pale yellow, without any 

 mixture of colour. Flesh approaching to yellow, firm and 

 crisp, with a pleasant brisk juice, having much the highest 

 flavour of any of the very early apples. 



A Scotch dessert apple, ripe the begimiing and middle of 

 August. 



3. Irish Peach Apple. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 740. ; 

 Pom. Mag. t. 100. 



Early Crofton. Hort. Trans. Vol. iii. p. 321. and 453. 



Fruit middle-sized, depressed, globular, obtusely angular. 

 Eye nearly closed by the segments of the calyx. Stalk 

 short, not deeply inserted. Skin marked with brownish red, 

 intermixed with some streaks of deeper red ; the shaded side 

 yellowish green, sprinlded with small brown dots. Flesh 

 white, tender, juicy, rich, and very highly flavoured. 



A dessert apple, ripe in August. 



4. JuNEATiNG. Ray (1688), No. 1. Layigley Pom, 

 t. 74. f. 2. 



double mode of working, they will answer. The buds should be protected daring 

 the winter, and the next apring the trees headed down to the bud, and planted out a« 

 above to remain. ^m, Ed. 



