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THE HAWTHORNDEN APPLE. 



Hawthornden. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 440. 

 White Hawthornden. Nicol's Fruit Gardener, p. 256. 



This valuable variety is said to have been origi- 

 nally raised eight or ten miles south of Edinburgh, 

 in the village, the name of which it bears, which is 

 better known as the birth-place of the poet Drum- 

 mond. It is one of the most abundant bearers we 

 have ; and as the extreme buds of the branches 

 are mostly blossom-buds, the ends become pendu- 

 lous when the crop of fruit is fully grown. 



Ripens in October, and will keep good about 

 a month or six weeks. 



WOOD short-jointed, of a light chestnut colour, 

 downy, with small white specks. 



LEAVES oval, taper-pointed, regularly serrated, 

 with small stipulse. 



FLOWERS middle-sized, with bright, rose-coloured, 

 roundish, cordate petals. 



FRUIT large, flattish, irregularly shaped, one 

 side being larger than the other. STALK half an 

 inch long. EYE a little depressed. SKIN clear, 

 greenish yellow, reddish on the side next the sun. 

 FLESH white. JUICE plentiful, sweet and pleasant. 



This is reckoned the best Apple in Scotland ; but 

 it is apt to canker in that country. 



