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THE CORNISH GILLIFLOWER APPLE. 



Julyflower. Hort. Soc. Trans, vol. ii. p. 74. 



Cornish Julyflower. Ibid. vol. Hi. p. 323. Fruit. Cat. no. 499. 



Calville d'Angleterre. Baumann Cat. 



This is the best Apple that is known, if high 

 flavour, combined with a very rich subacid saccha- 

 rine juice, be the qualities we most desire in fruit; 

 but it is a bad bearer. Its merit is, however, of so 

 decided a character, that no one who is aware of 

 its excellence would wish to be without a tree or 

 two, for the sake of the chance of adding so valu- 

 able a variety to his winter dessert. 



It ripens in November, and will keep till April. 

 The fruit is apt to grow from the extremities of the 

 shoots, which should be remembered in pruning the 

 trees. 



The first account of this sort is to be found in 

 the Hort. Trans, vol. ii. p. 74, in *a letter from Sir 

 Christopher Hawkins, in 1813. It was discovered 

 in a cottage garden near Truro, about ten or fifteen 

 years before that date ; and was considered by the 

 Society of so much importance, that the silver 

 medal was awarded to Sir Christopher Hawkins 

 for his exertions in bringing it into notice. 



It has already found its way abroad ; for the 

 Horticultural Society received it in 1826 from 



