AtPLES. 47 



85. EYER'S GREENING. G. LindL Plan of an Or- 

 chard, 1796. 



Fruit middle-sized, of a somewhat round flattish figure. 

 Eye large and hollow. Skin pale green, tinged with 

 brown on the sunny side, and thinly spotted with grey 

 russetty specks. Flesh pale green, firm, with a sweetish 

 sub-acid juice. A dessert and culinary apple from No- 

 vember till March. 



86. FAIL-ME-NEVER. Nursery Catalogues. 

 Never-fail. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 629. 



Fruit above the middle size, somewhat flat, with five 

 prominent narrow ribs surrounding the crown. Eye 

 small, with the segments of the calyx closed, seated in 

 a shallow, deeply plaited basin. Stalk half an inch 

 long, not protruding beyond the base. Skin red, shaded 

 with a deeper colour, and full of small russetty specks. 

 Flesh white. Juice sugary and of a pretty good flavour. 



A culinary apple from November till March. This 

 is said to be a Scottish apple. It is a small growing tree, 

 very hardy, and an abundant bearer. 



87- FEARN'S PIPPIN. Hooker, Pom. Lond. t. 43. 

 Pom. Mag. t. 67. 



Fruit middle-sized, round, and flattened. Eye large, 

 shallow, with scarcely any appearance of plaiting. Stalk 

 short, deeply inserted. Skin deep red on the exposed 

 side, with numerous whitish dots ; on the shaded side 

 greenish yellow, partially tinged with brownish red. 

 Flesh whitish, firm, very juicy, rich and pleasant. 



A dessert apple from November till March. This 

 very handsome and excellent apple has been known in 

 the London nurseries but a few years. It makes a 

 handsome tree, is very hardy, and an abundant bearer. 

 It highly deserves an extended cultivation. Hort. 

 Trans. Vol. i. p. 67. and Vol. ii. p. 103. 



88. FENOUILLET ROUGE. Duhamel, No. 11. t. 6. 



Bardin. Ib. 



