Origin, according to Hogg, this is an old Scotch apple, 

 probably introduced by the monks of Melrose Abbey. 

 This is highly thought of in the North and Midlands, 

 but with me is of no special excellence compared with 

 the number of good fruits ripening at the same period. 



WHITE NONPAREIL. Her. Pom. 21. F., Non- 

 pareille Blanche ; G., Weisser Nonpareil. Dessert, 

 till February, small, 2j by ij, flat, regular. Colour, 

 pale greenish-yellow with slight brown flush, covered 

 with russet. Flesh, tender, nearly white, aromatic. 

 Eye, closed, in a fairly deep, plaited basin. Stem, 

 slender, in a wide cavity. Growth, moderate ; fertile. 

 Leaf, oval, pointed, dark, upfolded, tip down-curved, 

 very boldly serrate. Origin, probably English. A 

 fruit of good flavour. The quite round cells distin- 

 guish it from the Old Nonpareil. 



White Paradise : see under Paradise White. 

 White Pippin : see Norfolk Stone Pippin. 

 White Pippin : see Yellow Ingestrie. 

 White Stone Pippin : see Norfolk Stone Pippin. 



WHITE TRANSPARENT. F., Transparente jaune. 

 (Grand Sultan, Transparent de St. Leger, Yellow Trans- 

 parent.) Culinary or dessert, early August, fairly 

 large, 3 by 2j, round, conical, irregular. Colour, 

 palest milky-yellow. Flesh, greenish-white, crisp, 

 acid. Eye, closed, in a moderately deep, plaited basin 

 with distinct knobs. Stem, medium, rather thin, 

 in a narrow, deep cavity, occasionally with light russet. 

 Growth, vigorous ; fertile. Leaf, very large, greyish- 

 green, lax, upfolded, undulated, finely serrate or crenate. 

 Origin, Russian. Introduced early in the nineteenth 

 century. A delicious summer fruit, brisk and digestible. 



Whorle : see Thorle. 



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