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base. Skin yellowish grey, covered with a thin russet, 

 and very slightly tinged with brown on the sunny side. 

 Flesh yellowish white, crisp, tender, with a saccharine 

 and highly flavoured aromatic juice. 



A dessert apple from November till February. 



This is a very neat French apple, and has been some 

 years in the London nurseries, where it is often sold 

 under the name of Aromatic Russet. The tree is a 

 rather small grower, with slender, smooth, wiry branches, 

 which seldom produce any spurs upon those of the pre- 

 sent year : it is hardy, and a good bearer. 



170. GOLDEN RUSSET. Forsyth, Ed. 3. No. 5J. 

 Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 983. 



Fruit below the middle size, pretty regular in its 

 outline, without angles, generally about two inches deep, 

 and two inches and a quarter in diameter. Eye rather 

 small, close, moderately depressed, surrounded by irre- 

 gular plaits, part of which are more prominent than the 

 rest. Stalk very short, deeply inserted in an uneven 

 narrow cavity, not protruding so far as the base. Skin 

 thick, of a pale copper-coloured yellowish russet, very 

 thick and rough on the shaded side, with a few patches, 

 occasionally, of bright red on the sunny side, and verru- 

 cose at the base. Flesh pale yellow, very firm and crisp. 

 Juice not plentiful, but saccharine, of an aromatic and 

 slightly musky flavour. 



A dessert apple from December till April. 



The Golden Russet has been known in our gardens 

 ever since the time of Ray, who makes it synonymous 

 with the Aromatic Russet. The trees are very hardy, 

 bearing well in bleak situations ; they grow to a good 

 size, and are rather remarkable, in having a profusion of 

 slender pendulous branches. 



171. HORSHAM RUSSET. G.LindL in Hort. Trans. 

 Vol.iv. p. 69. 



Fruit about the size of a Nonpareil, but not so 



