APPLES. 45 



A dessert apple from November till February. 



This is a very handsome and most excellent apple, and 

 highly deserving of cultivation. It is well adapted for graft- 

 ing on the Doucin stock, and for training in the garden as an 

 espalier. 



116. jEsopus Spitzemberg. Hort. Trans. Vol. v. p. 

 401. 



Fruit large, oblong. Stalk of moderate length, placed in 

 a deep cavity, and projecting a little beyond the base. Shin 

 smooth, of a Hvely brilliant red, approaching to scarlet, with 

 numerous small yellow spots. Flesh yellow, very rich, juicy, 

 and brisk. Ripe about Christmas. 



A most excellent apple of American origin ; it is said to 

 be of iEsopus, in Ulster county. " It is plentifully cultivated 

 at Livingston's manor, in Columbia county, m the state of 

 New-York." It is too tender to succeed in this country, 

 without the assistance of a south or an east wall. Some very 

 fine fruit from a south wall at Sacomb Park, in Hertfordshire, 

 were exhibited at the Horticultural Society of London, Oc- 

 tober 15, 1821.* 



117. Baltimore. Hort. Trans. Vol. iii. p. 120. t. 4. 

 Fruit very large, in form something like the Alexander, 



but more flat. Eye large, open, and deep, surrounded by a 

 few obtuse plaits. Skin pale lemon colour, covered with a 

 very thin gray russet, especially near the eye, and tinged with 

 a pale salmon-coloured blush on the sunny side . Flesh very 

 good, and close at the core. 



Raised in the garden of Mr. Smith, near the city of Bal- 

 timore, in America, and brought into Liverpool by Captain 

 George Hobson, of the Belvidere, of Baltimore, in 1817. 

 One of its fruit fourteen inches and three quarters in circum- 

 ference, and four inches in height, weighed one pound seven 

 ounces and a half avoirdupoise."]" 



118. Barcelona Pearmain. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 747. 

 Pom. Mag. t. 85. 



Glace Rouge. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 365. 

 Kleiner Casseler Reinette. Hort. Soc, Caf. No. 913., 

 according to the Pom. JVIag. 



* There can be no doubt that this is our true Spitzemberg. Grafts of this sort 

 were sent by me to the London Horticultural Society, in 1823, with the description 

 in inverted commas. I could almost fancy by the description of the fruit here given, 

 that it had been ripened in an American climate, not far from New-York: how- 

 ever, the county of Hertfordshire is peculiarly well adapted to the production of 

 fine apples, and for the best cider in England. .>3j«. JEd. 



t We should be obliged to Mr Smith of Baltimore, to give us some further de- 

 Bcription of this apple, the above being very imperfect. ./2m. Ed. 



