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tened at both extremities. Eye well formed, open, 

 sunk in a broad but very shallow hollow. Stalk short, 

 slender. Skin green, approaching to brownish yellow 

 where fully exposed, with a large portion of russet 

 brown, particularly round the eye. Flesh greenish, 

 breaking, tender. Juice plentiful, partaking of the 

 flavour of both a Golden Pippin and Nonpareil. The 

 fruit is generally produced in clusters at the ends of the 

 branches, often eight or ten together. 



A very neat and excellent dessert apple from Decem- 

 ber till May. 



This has long been cultivated in His Majesty's 

 gardens at Kew, under its present name. 



108. STRIPED BEAUFIN. G. Lind. Plan of an 

 Orchard, 1796. 



Fruit large, of an uneven outline, with broad ir- 

 regular ribs on its sides, about three inches and three 

 quarters in diameter, and three inches deep. Eye 

 large, open, in a deep and wide irregular obtuse-angled 

 basin. Stalk half an inch long, deeply inserted in a 

 wide uneven cavity. Skin green, tinged with dull sal- 

 mon colour, mottled, and covered with broken stripes 

 and dashes of dull red all round the fruit. Flesh firm, 

 pale greenish white. Juice quick, slightly sub-acid. 



A culinary fruit from October till May. I found a 

 large tree of this sort in 1794, growing in the garden of 

 the late William Crowe, Esq., at Lakenham, near Nor- 

 wich, a fruit of which I gathered, measuring twelve 

 inches and a half in circumference, and weighing 

 twelve ounces and a half avoirdupoise. It is a very 

 excellent apple, and, being very hardy, deserves culti- 

 vation. 



109. WINTER BROADIXC. G. Lind. in Hort. Trans. 

 Vol. iv. p. 66. 



Broad-end. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 108. 



Fruit middle-sized, globular, flattened at both ends. 



