86 APPLES. 



very firm, and crisp. Juice sugary, and of a high 

 poignant flavour. 



A very neat dessert apple from November till Fe- 

 bruary. 



This is a Yorkshire apple of great merit ; the trees 

 are but small growers, but they are very hardy, and 

 great bearers. 



164<. AROMATIC RUSSET. Nursery Catalogues. 

 But not of Hort. Soc. Cat. 1061. 



Fruit middle-sized, a little conical, but flattened at 

 both the base and the crown. Eye small, a little de- 

 pressed. Stalk very short, deeply inserted. Skin 

 green, covered with a thin grey russet, and a little tinged 

 with dull red on the sunny side. Flesh greenish white, 

 firm, crisp, but tender. Juice saccharine and per- 

 fumed. 



A dessert apple from November till February. 



The wood of this tree is straight, rather slender; and 

 when the young branches are vigorous, they are furnished 

 with spurs, somewhat in the manner of the Nonesuch. 

 It is a very hardy sort, and an excellent bearer. 



165. ASHMEAD'S KERNEL. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 20. 



Dr. Ashmead's Kernel, of the Gloucester shire Gardens. 



Fruit rather small, not much unlike the old Nonpareil, 

 except in being a little longer, and having a few obtuse 

 angles running from the base to the crown, which is 

 somewhat narrow. Eye small, a little depressed. Stalk 

 three quarters of an inch long, slender, and inserted 

 half its length in a conical cavity. Skin of a pale brown- 

 ish grey russet upon a green ground, and of a brownish 

 orange colour on the sunny side. Flesh firm and crisp. 

 Juice plentiful, of an excellent and rich aromatic flavour. 



A very neat dessert apple from November till May. 



The habit and general appearance of the tree is very 

 much like that of a Nonpareil, and there can be no doubt 

 of its having originated from a seed of that fruit. It is 



