DEWDNEY'S SEEDLING. (Baron Wolseley.) 

 Culinary, December to January, large, 3 by 2j, flat, 

 conical, rather irregular. Colour, golden-yellow, with 

 brownish-red flush. Flesh, firm, pale yellow, juicy 

 and brisk. Eye, closed in a round, moderately deep 

 slightly ribbed basin. Stem, rather short, stout in 

 a wide cavity, nearly free from russet. Growth, 

 straggling, vigorous ; fertile. Leaf, moderate, dark, 

 nearly flat, undulating, curved serrate .Origin, raised 

 at Barrowby, near Grantham, by Mr. Dewdney, about 

 1850. A useful late cooking variety. 



DIAMOND JUBILEE. Dessert or culinary, Jan- 

 uary to March, rather large, 2f by 2f , round, conical, 

 even. Colour, even grass green, changing to yellow. 

 Flesh, firm, white, flavour rather good. Eye, nearly 

 closed in a flat and shallow plaited basin, Stem, 

 short, and moderately stout, in a very small cavity. 

 Growth, rather upright, spreading, twiggy, making a 

 round tree. Leaf, rather large, narrow, flat, a little 

 twisted, undulating, curved serrate, held up. Origin, 

 raised at Rainham, Kent, and introduced in 1901. A 

 good late apple, which may be described as an earlier 

 Beauty of Stoke. Royal Late which is sometimes said 

 to be the same is quite distinct. 



Diels Sommer Konig : see Gravenstein. 

 Ditton Pippin : see Braddick's Nonpareil. 

 Dr. Harvey : see Waltham Abbey. 



DOCTOR HOGG. Culinary, September to Febru- 

 ary, fairly large, 3 by 3, oval, conical, regular. Colour, 

 yellow with pale flush. Eye, open in a deep irregular 

 basin. Stem, rather long in a wide cavity. Flesh, 

 tender, white, sweet. Growth, moderate ; fertile. 

 Leaf, horizontal, upfolded. Origin, a supposed seedling 

 from Calville Blanche. Raised by Mr. Ford, gardener 

 at Leonardslee, Horsham, and introduced by Messrs. 

 W. Paul & Son, about 1880. Now little grown, having 

 been superseded. 



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