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LONGVILLE'S KERNEL APPLE. 



Longville's Kernel. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 567. 

 Sam's Crab. Ibid. no. 1021. 



This is a Herefordshire Apple of considerable 

 merit, and but little known. It ripens at a period 

 when good Apples are not very common, on which 

 account it deserves to be more generally cultivated. 



Whether the Sam's Crab is really the same 

 as this, is not quite certain ; but all that we have 

 had an opportunity of examining have been exactly 

 like it. 



An excellent Autumn fruit, in perfection from 

 the middle of August to the middle of September. 

 It is a great bearer, either as a dwarf or standard. 



WOOD slightly downy, chestnut-coloured, thickly 

 set with small well-defined dots. 



LEAVES ovate - oblong, flat, regularly but not 

 deeply serrated, with long stalks, and very small 

 lanceolate stipules. 



FRUIT middle-sized, oval, approaching to coni- 

 cal, rather angular, plaited round the eye, which is 

 deeply sunk. STALK short, deeply inserted. SKIN 

 greenish yellow, streaked and spotted with bright 

 red. FLESH firm, yellow, perfumed, with a rich, 

 pleasant, sweet, subacid juice. 



