36 APPLES. 



Fruit rather below the middle size, the shape of a small 

 Golden Reinette. Eye small, open, slightly sunk. Stalk 

 half an inch long, moderately thick. Skin pale yellow, 

 slightly tinged with red on the sunny side, and sprinkled 

 with irregular brown spots. Flesh yellow, tender, juicy, 

 and pleasant. An excellent dessert apple from Novem- 

 ber till April. Raised some years ago by John Motteux, 

 Esq. of Beachamwell, in Norfolk, where the original tree 

 now stands ; it is a hardy sort and a very good bearer. 



68. BELLEDGE. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 65. 



Fruit rather below the middle size, round, free from 

 angles, and a little narrowed towards the crown. About 

 two inches and a quarter deep, and two inches and a half 

 in diameter. Eye rather small, nearly closed by short, 

 acute segments of the calyx, in a round rather well 

 shaped basin, surrounded by very slight obtuse plaits. 

 Stalk half an inch long, slender, sunk level with the base 

 in a funnel-shaped cavity. Skin pale grass-green, slightly 

 tinged with pale brown where exposed to the sun, the 

 whole interspersed with numerous imbedded grey dots. 

 Flesh tender, crisp, greenish white. Juice plentiful, 

 sugary, with a slight pleasant acid, and a slight aromatic 

 flavour. 



A neat dessert and culinary apple, from October till 

 Christmas. 



Described from a fruit grown in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, at Chiswick, in 1830. 



69. BELLE GUIDELINE. G. Lind. Plan of an Or- 

 chard, 1796. 



Belle Grisdeline. Forsyth, Ed. 3. No. 5. 



Fruit middle sized, of a very regular, and perfectly 

 round figure. Eye sunk in a somewhat deep regularly 

 formed basin. Stalk half an inch long, slender. Skin 

 yellow, marbled and shaded on the sunny side with a 

 lively red, intermixed with a thin grey russet. Flesh 

 white, firm, and crisp. Juice brisk and well flavoured. 



