APPLES. 63 



A culinary apple from November till March. 



This is a real Norfolk apple, in general cultivation 

 throughout the county. It makes a large tree, is 

 hardy, and a very good bearer. 



120. BEDFORDSHIRE FOUNDLING. Hort. Soc. Cat. 

 No. 51. 



Cambridge Pippin. Ib. 



Fruit very large, three inches and a half deep, and 

 three inches and a quarter in diameter, irregularly rib- 

 bed, with very broad obtuse angles on the sides, generally 

 two or three of these are longer than others, which give 

 the crown an oblique inclination. Eye not large, but 

 open, rather deeply placed in a somewhat narrow basin. 

 Stalk short, deeply inserted. Skin pale greenish yel- 

 low on the shaded side, sprinkled with a few green 

 specks ; on the sunny side slightly tinged with pale 

 orange, and sprinkled thinly with dull red specks. 

 Flesh yellowish white, tender, mellow. Juice sub-acid 

 and slightly saccharine. Core generally large and hol- 

 low. 



A culinary apple from November to January. 



121. BELLE BONNE. G. LindL in Hort. Trans. 

 Vol. iv. p. 68. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 52. 



Holland, of some collections. 



Fruit middle sized, about ten inches in circumference, 

 somewhat conical ; broad at the base, full in the middle, 

 and narrow at the crown. Eye small, flat, closed by the 

 segments of the calyx. Stalk half an inch long, slender, 

 in some obliquely inserted under an elongated lip. 

 Skin thick, pale, greenish yellow, brightened on the 

 sunny side by a few reddish streaks, which become rus- 

 setty at the base, and surround the stalk. Flesh firm, 

 juicy, and well flavoured. 



A valuable dessert and culinary apple from October 

 till January. 



The only old tree I have ever seen of this sort is now 

 growing in a garden occupied by Mrs. Sanctuary, at 



