JEANNE HARDY. Rev. Hort., 1890, 324. Culin- 

 ary or exhibition, November to February, very large, 

 4 by 3l> round, conical, much ribbed. Colour, pale 

 creamy-yellow with brilliant carmine flush and stripes. 

 Flesh, pale yellow, soft, juicy, sweet, no particular 

 flavour. Eye, open set in a deep wide basin which is 

 boldly ribbed. Stem, short in a very deep and unusually 

 wide cavity. Growth, strong and compact. Leaf, 

 very large, pale, crenate, upfolded, upheld, round- 

 oval. Origin, raised at the School of Horticulture, at 

 Versailles, in 1878, first fruited in 1882, and dedicated 

 to Mile. Jeanne Hardy. A very beautiful fruit, that 

 may be best described as a large Cox's Pomona with the 

 appearance of Emperor Alexander. 



Jenetting : see White Joaneting. 

 John Apple : see French Crab. 

 John Apple : see Northern Greening. 

 John Peel : see Golden Noble. 



JOLLY BEGGAR. Her. Pom.. 31. Culinary, 

 August to November, medium, 2f by 3, round, conical, 

 irregular. Colour, pale yellow with very slight orange 

 flush. Skin, very smooth. Flesh, tender, white, sub- 

 acid. Eye, closed, in a shallow basin, which has ten 

 knobs at the top. Stem, moderately long in a narrow 

 deep cavity, faintly streaked with russet. Growth, 

 moderate ; rather spreading ; very fertile. Leaf, 

 rather large, roundish, little up-cupped, boldly crenate. 

 Origin, raised by Dr. John Lyell, Newburgh, Fife, 

 and introduced about 1858. A useful variety ; now 

 little grown. 



JUNEATING. Dessert, end July, small, flattened 

 round, even. Colour, pale greenish-yellow. Skin, 

 slightly greasy. Stem, small. Growth, rather upright, 

 moderate ; fertility, moderate. Leaf, small, irregu- 

 larly serrate, sometimes crenate, little upfolded. Origin, 

 a very old variety known from the seventeenth century. 

 Not to be confused with the Red Juneating. 



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