44 APPLES. 



81. DUMELOW'S SEEDLING. Hort. Trans. Vol. iv. 

 p. 529. 



Dumelow's Crab. Ib. 



Wellington Apple. Ib. 



Fruit above the middle size, round, flattened at both 

 ends. Eye large and open, rather deeply sunk. Stalk 

 very short. Skin clear yellow, with a blush of light red 

 where exposed to the sun ; the whole surface sprinkled 

 with small brown spots. Flesh yellow, crisp, with a 

 brisk acid juice. An excellent culinary apple from 

 November to April. 



Raised some years ago by a Mr.Dumelow, a nursery- 

 man near Derby. It is well known in the counties of 

 Derby, Lancaster, and Nottingham, by the name of 

 Dumelow's Crab. Its fruit was first exhibited at the 

 Horticultural Society, in 1820. 



82. DUTCH MIGNONNE. G. Lindl. in Hort. Trans. 

 Vol. iv. p. 70. Pom. Mag. t. 84. 



Christ's Golden Reinette. Taschenb. p. 405. 



Reinette Doree. Mayer. Pom. Franc, t. xxx. 



Pomme de Laak. Stoffels, and Thouin, according 

 to the Pom. Mag. 



Paternoster Apple. Audibert. 



-Fruit above the middle size*, very regularly formed, 

 rather narrower at the crown than at the base. Eye 

 generally close, deeply sunk. Stalk an inch long, slender, 

 deeply inserted. Skin dull yellow, sprinkled with nu- 

 merous, small, russetty, green, and white spots ; on the 

 sunny side of a rich, deep, dull red, streaked and mot- 

 tled. Flesh very firm, crisp. Juice plentiful, with a 

 delicious aromatic, sub-acid flavour. A dessert apple 

 from November till May or June. 



* I have now by me, October 1830, a fruit of this apple, grown 

 in the Horticultural Garden at Chiswick, which measures three 

 inches and a quarter deep, and four inches in diameter. 



