APPLES. 67 



A very excellent culinary apple from November till 

 March. 



This is a Norfolk apple, which originated on the 

 estate of the late Colonel Harbord, the second Lord 

 Suffield, of Blickling and Gunton Hall, in this county. 



130. CORNISH GILLIFLOWER. Pom. Mag. t. 140. 



Julyflower. Hort. Trans. Vol. ii. p. 74. 



Cornish Julyflower. Ib. Vol. iii. p. 323, according 

 to the Pom. Mag. 



Calville d'Angleterre. Baumann Cat. 



Fruit moderately large, of an oval form and angular, 

 about three inches and a quarter in diameter, and the 

 same in depth. Eye closed by the segments of the 

 calyx, and sunk among knobby protuberances rising 

 from the terminations of the angles on the sides. Stalk 

 three quarters of an inch long, not deeply inserted. Skin 

 dull green on the shaded side, but where fully exposed 

 to the sun intermixed with brownish red, slightly 

 sprinkled with russet, and sometimes richer streaks of 

 red. Flesh yellowish, firm, and very rich ; when cut, it 

 gives out a pleasant perfume, resembling the Clove 

 Gilliflower, whence its name. 



A dessert apple, ripening in November, and will keep 

 till April. 



This very valuable apple was first noticed in the 

 Hort. Trans. Vol. ii. p. 74- in a letter from Sir Chris- 

 topher Hawkins, in 1813. It was discovered in a cot- 

 tage garden near Truro, about ten or fifteen years before 

 that date, and was considered by the Society of so much 

 importance that the silver medal was awarded to Sir 

 Christopher for his exertions in bringing it into notice. 

 It is considered as but an indifferent bearer ; but this 

 defect may be remedied by grafting it upon the Doucin 

 stock, and planting it in the garden, and training it 

 either as an open dwarf or as an espalier. 



130.* COUL BLUSH. Hort. Trans. Vol. vii. p. 340. 

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