PRINCE EDWARD. Culinary or dessert, till Feb- 

 ruary, medium, 2f by 2j, round conical, irregular. 

 Colour, golden-yellow, with red flush and broad broken 

 stripes. Flesh, tender, juicy, pale yellow, sub-acid. 

 Growth, compact ; fertile. Leaf, pale, medium, little 

 upcupped, boldly crenate. Origin, raised and intro- 

 duced by Messrs. Rivers. Of no particular merit. 



Putnam Russet : see Boston Russet. 

 Quarrington : see Devonshire Quarrenden. 



QUEEN. Her. Pom., 39. (Saltmarsh's Queen, 

 The Claimant.) Culinary, October to December, large, 

 3j by 2j, flat, irregular. Colour, pale lemon-yellow 

 with distinct red stripes and flush. Flesh, very tender, 

 white, sub-acid, excellent cooker. Eye, closed in a 

 deep, wide basin. Stem, short, in a very wide and deep 

 cavity, which has scaly russet. Growth, strong and 

 spreading ; fertile. Leaf, large, flat, coarsely serrate 

 or crenate. Origin, raised by Mr. W. Bull, a farmer 

 of Billericay, in 1858, and introduced by Mr. Saltmarsh, 

 of Chelmsford, in 1880. A useful fruit ; does well as 

 a standard, making a large flat headed tree. 



QUEEN CAROLINE. (Spencer's Favourite, 

 Brown's Queen Caroline.) Culinary, till December, 

 fairly large, 3 by 2f , flattened round, regular. Colour, 

 pale greenish-yellow. Flesh, firm, juicy, yellow. Eye, 

 large, open in a wide even basin. Stem, medium, in 

 a rather deep cavity. Growth, moderate ; fertile. 

 Leaf, rather large, dark green, round oval, regularly 

 serrate, upfolded, undulating. Origin, raised by Mr. 

 T. Brown, a nurseryman of Measham, near Ashby- 

 de-la-Zouch, about 1820, and named after the much 

 discussed Queen. A good cooker, makes a good 

 standard and bears well thus. 



Queen Charlotte's Apple : see Borsdorfer. 

 Quince : see Lemon Pippin. 

 Quodlin : see English Codlin. 

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