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the sun, pale yellow freckled with red on the shaded side. 

 Flesh firm, crisp, with a smart sub-acid juice. 



A culinary apple from November till March. 



111. Winter Majetin, 6r. Lind. in Hort. Trans. Vol. 

 iv. p. 68. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 1170. 



Fruit somewhat resembling the London Pippin in form, 

 having prominent ribs round the crown, but it is a little more 

 oval. Eye small, closed, rather deeply sunk in a narrow 

 basin, surrounded by five deep and prominent plaits or knob- 

 by angles. Stalk three quarters of an inch long, slender, 

 one half of which is within a wide funnel-shaped cavity. Shin 

 dull green, with a tinge of brownish red on the sunny side. 

 Flesh greenish white, and resembles that of the Easter Pip- 

 pin in texture and flavour. 



A culinary apple from November till March. It is one 

 of the most hardy sorts in the xountry, and a never-failing 

 bearer. 



The aphis lanigera, a white meally insect, so destructive 

 to most of our old orchard trees, appears to be set at defiance 

 by the Majetin. An old tree now growing in a garden be- 

 longing to Mr. William Youngman, of Norwich, which had 

 been grafted about three feet high in the stem, has been for 

 many years attacked by this insect below the grafted part, 

 but never above it, the limbs and branches being to this day 

 perfectly free, although all the other trees in the same garden 

 have been infested more or less with it. Mr. Knight's Si- 

 berian Bitter-sweet Apple appears to possess the same pro- 

 perty of resisting the attacks of these formidable and widely 

 increasing depredators. 



112. Winter Queening. G. Lind. in Hort. Trans. 

 Vol. iv. p. 70. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 833. 



Fruit above the middle size, somewhat globular, equally 

 broad each way, obscurely five-angled on its sides. Eye 

 large, placed in a shallow basin. Stalk very short, not deeply 

 inserted. Skin pale green, or greenish yellow ; but where 

 exposed to the sun, of a deep red, mixed with russet, and 

 striped towards the base. Flesh white, with a mixture of 

 green, firm. Juice sub-acid, with a slight ai-omatic flavour. 



A culinary apple from November till March. 



The Queening is an old apple, known to Ray in 1668. It 

 forms a large handsome tree, is very hardy, and a great 

 bearer. 



113. Winter White Calville. 



