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minute brown spots, and a considerable quantity of russet, 

 especially round the stalk ; in some specimens red on the 

 sunny side, usually cracking. Flesh inclining to yellow, 

 mixed with green ; tender, and melting. Juice plentiful, 

 sweet, with a delicious flavour, scarely inferior to that of the 

 Golden Pippin. 



An Irish dessert apple, of high reputation, ripe in Novem- 

 ber, and will keep good for two months. 



The merits of this very valuable apple were made known 

 in 1818, by Mr. Robertson, of Kilkenny. It is certainly 

 one of the best of our modern apples, and cannot have too 

 general a cultivation. 



187. Scarlet Nonpareil. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 670. 

 Pom. Mag. t. 87. 



Fruit middle-sized, larger than the old Nonpareil, about 

 two inches and a half deep, and three inches in diameter^ 

 roundish, without any angles on its sides. Eye shallow, 

 placed in a regularly-formed depression, surrounded with 

 very small plaits. Stalk variable in length, sometimes nearly 

 an inch long, sometimes a thick fleshy knob. Skin deep red 

 next the sun, sprinkled with pale brown dots ; the shaded 

 part yellowish green, passing off" into streaks towards the 

 junction of the two colours. Flesh firm, yellowish white, 

 juicy, rich, and very excellent. 



A dessert apple from November till March. 



The Scarlet Nonpareil was raised in a garden belonging 

 to a public house at Esher, in Surrey, about 1773, from a 

 seed of the Old Nonpareil. Mrs. Grimwood purchased 

 the original stock, from which some plants were obtained by 

 Mr. Kirke, whose annual exhibitions in his garden of large 

 quantities of its beautiful fruit have caused its cultivation now 

 to be extended to almost every part of England, where it 

 cannot fail of being universally admired. It is a very har- 

 dy sort, and a great and constant bearer. The Schafer ap- 

 ple of the Germans, quoted in the Hort. Soc. Cat. as a sy- 

 nonym to this, is found to be a distinct variety. 



188. Siely's Mignonne. G. Lindl. Cat. 1805. 

 Pride of the Ditches. Local, in JVorvnch. 



Fruit rather small, about one inch and three quarters deep, 

 and the same in diameter. It is not quite circular, in conse- 

 quence of one of its sides being occasionally a httle flattened, 

 but is without any angles. Eye small, with a closed calyx, 

 placed somewhat deeply in a rather irregularly formed nar- 

 row basin, surrounded by a few small plaits. Stalk half an 



