BEAUTY OF STOKE. Culinary or dessert. Jan- 

 uary to March, medium to fairly large, 2\ by 2j, round 

 conical. Colour, pale greenish yellow, occasional faint 

 brown flush and slight russet. Flesh, firm, rather dry, 

 yellowish, pleasant flavour. Growth, vigorous, a little 

 spreading ; fertile. Leaf, narrow, oval, pea green, 

 little upfolded, boldly curved serrate, little downy 

 below, held out. Origin, raised by Mr. Doe, gardener 

 to Lord Saville, Rufford Abbey ; introduced by Messrs. 

 Veitch. A valuable late variety, resembling Diamond 

 Jubilee but distinct. 



BEDFORDSHIRE FOUNDLING. Ronalds, p. 28. 

 F., Trouve dans le comte de Bedfordshire ; G., Fundling 

 aus Bedfordshire. (Cambridge Pippin.) Culinary, 

 January to March, 3j by 2|, large, square oval, slightly 

 irregular. Colour, pale yellow-green, faint red flush. 

 Flesh, tender, yellow, sub-acid. Eye, half open in a 

 shallow wrinkled basin. Stem, rather long and thin 

 in a wide and deep cavity, lined with faint russet. 

 Growth, spreading, vigorous ; moderately fertile. Leaf 

 very large, dark, long oval, upward folded and twisted, 

 sharply bi-serrate. Origin, uncertain. Probably arose 

 about 1800, in Bedfordshire. An excellent cooker of 

 the Blenheim style, but apt to canker. 



BELLE DE BOSKOOP. Ned. Boom., 43. G., 

 Schoener aus Boskoop. (Reinette Monstreuse, Reinette 

 von Montfort.) Culinary or dessert, December to 

 April, medium to rather large, 2| by 2j, roundish oval, 

 fairly regular. Colour, golden-yellow, brick red flush, 

 with much thin russet. Flesh, firm, yellowish, flavour 

 acid and aromatic. Eye, closed or slightly open in a 

 rather deep basin. Stem, medium in a deep cavity 

 lined with russet. Growth, moderate ; fertile. Leaf, 

 round, light, slightly upfolded, deeply curved serrate. 

 Originated at Boskoop in Holland in 1856. It must not 

 be confused with the Calville von Boskoop. Reinette 

 von Montfort is considered by some authorities to be 

 the correct name. A valuable fruit much grown for 

 market in Holland and Germany, and worthy of trial 

 for this purpose in England. 



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