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LUCOMBE'S SEEDLING APPLE. 



Lucombe's Seedling. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 575. 



A fine variety, raised, we presume from its name, 

 by the Messrs. Lucombes, of Exeter, so well known 

 as successful cultivators both of fruit and forest 

 trees. It has been in the Gardens near London for 

 several years. 



It is chiefly valuable as a kitchen Apple, being 

 scarcely small enough, or sufficiently high-flavoured, 

 for the table. It is, however, so handsome, and so 

 great a bearer, that it must be particularly useful to 

 those who grow fruit for the market. 



Ripens in October, and will keep through the 

 winter. 



Wood erect, reddish chestnut, with a tinge of 

 russet, sprinkled with numerous pale-brown dots, 

 and covered towards the extremities with a hoary 

 pubescence. 



Leaves middle-sized, oval, pointed, crenated. 

 Petioles long, erect, rather slender. Stipules 

 long, linear. 



Flowers small. Petals blunt. 



Fruit large, roundish, slightly angular, con- 

 tracted at the eye, which is small and surrounded 

 with minute plaits. Stalk short, thick, in a mode- 

 rately deep cavity. Skin smooth, green, covered 



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