34 APPLES. 



with a little yellow intermixed, upon the other. Flesh 

 whitish, crisp. Juice rich, sugary, and pleasant. 



A very handsome dessert apple from September till 

 December. 



63. SOPS OF WINE. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 1164. 

 Sops in Wine. Ray. (1688). No. 21. 



Rode Wyn Appel. Knoop. Pom. p. 45 t. 8. 



Fruit middle-sized, somewhat globular, but narrow 

 at the crown, with a few slight angles on its sides. 

 Eye small, closed by the calyx, and but little depressed. 

 Stalk an inch long, slender. Shin pale yellow, marked 

 and streaked with scarlet, deep red, and blood colour ; on 

 the sunny side, especially near the crown, it is wholly 

 deep red. flesh soft, white, tinctured more or less 

 with pale red to the core. Cells large, open, five- 

 angled. Juice sweet, but not rich. 



A culinary apple in October and November. 



64. SUMMER PEARMAIN. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 771. 

 Pom. Mag. t. 116. 



Summer Pearmain. Miller Ed. 8. No. 3. 



Parmain d'E'te. Knoop, p. 17. t. 2. 



Royal Pearmain. Mawe, u4bercrombie, Forsytli, 

 and of the London Nurserymen. 



Fruit middle-sized, oblong, tapering gradually from 

 the base to the crown. Eye small, with a slender and 

 nearly closed calyx, in a broad shallow depression, some- 

 times almost level, very slightly plaited. Stalk short, 

 obliquely inserted, somewhat like a lemon, into a fleshy 

 continuation of the fruit. Skin bright gold colouV, 

 sprinkled all over with numerous minute brown specks ; 

 on the sunny side marbled and streaked with bright 

 orange and scarlet. Flesh pale yellow, crisp, firm. 

 Juice not plentiful, but rich, and of a high aromatic 

 flavour. 



A most excellent and beautiful dessert apple from 

 October till Christmas. In some seasons, however, it is 



