APPLES. 69 



rather narrow, two inches and three quarters in diameter, 

 and two inches and a quarter deep. Eye closed, with a 

 somewhat long leafy calyx, seated in a narrow oblique, an- 

 gular basin. Stalk short, deeply inserted in a wide uneven 

 cavity, not protruding beyond the base. Skin pale green, 

 covered with a good deal of russet, and tinged with muddy 

 orange or dull brown on the sunny side. Flesh very firm, 

 crisp. Juice saccharine, with a sub-acid briskness and aro- 

 matic flavour. 



A dessert as well as culinary apple from November till 

 March or April. Towards the spring when the fruit be- 

 gins to shrivel, the Pile's Russet is an excellent table fruit. 



180. Pine-Apple Russet. G. Liiidl. Plan of an Or- 

 chard, 1796. 



Hardingham's Russet, of the JYorwich Gardens. 



Fruit above the middle size, roundish ovate, with broad 

 obtuse angles on its sides, about two inches and three quar- 

 ters in diameter, and two inches and a half deep. Eye 

 small, with a very short connivent calyx, placed in a shallow 

 depression, surrounded by ten rather unequal plaits. Stalk 

 an inch long, inserted in an uneven cavity, one half of which 

 protrudes beyond the base. Skin pale greenish yellow, al- 

 most covered with white specks on one part, and a thick 

 scabrous yellowish russet on the other, which extends round 

 the stock. Flesh very pale yellow, crisp, very short and 

 tender. Juice more abundant than in any apple I hrive 

 ever met with, as it generally runs very copiously as soon as 

 cut open, saccharine, with that just proportion of acid which 

 characterises our most valuable fruits, and of a spicy aro- 

 matic flavour, with a high perfume. 



A dessert apple from the end of September to the middle 

 of October. 



This most valuable apple has taken its name from its 

 abundance of juice, which somewhat resembles that of a 

 pine-apple. The oldest tree remembered in Norwich was 

 growing a century ago in a garden belonging to Mr. Har- 

 dingham, who died but a few years ago. The garden now 

 belongs to Mr. William Youngman. It is undoubtedly one 

 of the best apples of its season, and is highly deserving of 

 cultivation. 



181. PiTMASTON Nonpareil. Hort. Trans. Vol. v. 

 p. 267. t. 10. f 4. 



Pitmaston Russet Nonpareil. lb. 



Saint John's Nonpareil. Hort. Soc. Cat, 6^9, 



