42 APPLES. 



Fruit about the size of a Golden Pippin, oval, flattened at 

 both extremities. Eye well formed, open, sunk in a broad 

 but very shallow hollow. Stalk short, slender. Skin green, 

 approaching to brownish yellow where fully exposed, -with a 

 large portion of russet brown, particularly round the eye. 

 Flesh greenish, breaking, tender. Jiiice plentiful, partaking 

 of the flavour of both a Golden Pippin and Nonpareil. The 

 fruit is generally produced in clusters at the ends of the 

 branches, often eight or ten together. 



A very neat and excellent dessert apple from December 

 till May. 



This has long been cultivated in His Majesty^s gardens 

 at Kew, under its present name. 



108. Striped Beaufin. G. Lind. Plan of an Orchard^ 

 1796. 



Fruit large, of an uneven outline, with broad irregular ribs 

 on its sides, about three inches and three quarters in diame- 

 ter, and three inches deep. Eye large, open, in a deep and 

 wide irregular obtuse-angled basin. Stalk half an inch long, 

 deeply inserted in a wide uneven cavity. Skin green, tin- 

 ged with dull salmon colour, mottled, and covered with bro- 

 ken stripes and dashes of dull red all round the fruit. Flesh 

 firm, pale greenish white. Juice quick, slightly sub-acid. 



A culinary fruit from October till May. 



109. Winter Broadikg. G. Lind, in Hort. Trans. 

 Vol. iv. p. 66. 



Broad-end. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 108. 



Fruit middle sized, globular, flattened at both ends. Eye 

 placed in a small narrow basin. Stalk very short, deeply 

 inserted. Skin pale green, with a tinge of faint brownish red 

 on the sunny side. Flesh white, mixed with green. Juice 

 sub-acid, but pleasant. 



A good culinary apple from Michaelmas till Christmas. 



110. Winter'Colman. G. Lind. in Hort. Trans. Vol. 

 iv. p. 66. 



Norfolk Coleman. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 683. 



Norfolk Storing. Forsyth, Ed. 3. No. 126. 



Fruit rather large, of a round and rather flattish figure, 

 nearly as broad at the crown as the base ; generally about 

 three inches and three quarters in diameter, and two inches 

 and a half deep. Eye open, rather nan'ow, not deep, sur- 

 rounded by several pretty regular plaits. Stalk short, thick, 

 inserted quite within the base. Skin bright deep red next 



