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and open, but slightly angular. Skin yellowish, stained 

 on the sunny side with dull red, intermixed with streaks 

 of deeper colour. Flesh yellow, breaking, sweet, juicy, 

 extremely pleasant, and high flavoured. 



A dessert apple from November till March. This is 

 one of the largest of our table apples. It was raised in 

 a garden belonging to a baker at Old Woodstock, near 

 Oxford, a short distance from Blenheim. 



73. BORSDORFF. Knoop. Pom. p. 56. 1. 10. 

 Borsdorffer. Ib. 



Reinette batarde. Ib. 



Postophe d'Hiver. Bon. Jard. 1827. P- 323. 



Postdoff. Ib. 



Bursdoff, or Queen's Apple. Forsytli, Ed. 3. No. 15. 



Fruit below the middle size, of a roundish figure, 

 rather narrower at the crown than the base. Eye small, 

 a little sunk. Stalk half an inch long, slender. Skin pale 

 yellow, marked with various ramifications of a grey rus- 

 setted network, interspersed with a few dark-coloured 

 specks ; when fully exposed to the sun it is of a beau- 

 tiful brilliant red, extending nearly round its base. 

 Flesh yellowish white, firm, crisp. Juice sugary, with 

 a singularly musky perfume. 



A dessert apple from November till February. This 

 is a German apple of very excellent quality. The 

 fruit from which this account was written, was brought 

 from Leipsic in January, 1798. , It was a great favo- 

 rite with Queen Charlotte, who had it imported for her 

 annually, and appears to have been introduced into this 

 country soon after her arrival in 1761. 



74. BRICKLEY SEEDLING. Pom. Mag. t. 124. 



Fruit about the size of the Scarlet Nonpareil ; round- 

 ish, becoming a little narrower towards the crown. Eye 

 small, open, placed in an evenly-formed, not very deep 

 depression. Stalk short, inserted in a rather large, even 

 cavity. Skin red next the sun, and a deep yellow 



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