APPLES. 93 



Fruit middle-sized, somewhat ovate, slightly angular 

 on its sides, about two inches and a quarter deep, and 

 two inches and a half or two inches and three quarters 

 in diameter. Eye small, with a long, slender, connivent 

 calyx, placed in a narrow, somewhat irregularly formed 

 basin. Stalk an inch long, very slender, inserted in a 

 funnel-shaped cavity, one half protruding beyond the 

 base. Skin pale greenish yellow, covered with a thin 

 grey russet. Flesh pale yellowish white, crisp. Juice 

 brisk acid, with a rich aromatic flavour. 



A dessert apple from November till March. 



178. PENNINGTON'S SEEDLING. Hort. Soc. Cat. 

 No. 778. 



Fruit above the middle size, round, slightly angular 

 on the sides, and somewhat flattened, broadest at the 

 base, and narrowed at the crown ; about three inches 

 in diameter, and two inches and a quarter deep. Eye 

 closed with long slender segments of the calyx, in a 

 rather shallow irregularly formed hollow. Stalk three 

 quarters of an inch long, strong, inserted in a wide uneven 

 cavity, protruding beyond the base. Skin green when 

 first gathered, with numerous small russetty specks on 

 the shaded side ; where exposed to the sun, covered 

 pretty thickly with a scabrous warty russet, and tinged 

 a little with pale brown. Flesh yellowish white, firm, 

 crisp, juicy, saccharine mixed with a brisk acid, and of 

 an agreeable aromatic flavour. 



A dessert apple from November till March. 



This is a new variety, and appears to be a very valu- 

 able apple, the description of which was taken from a 

 fruit grown in the Horticultural Garden at Chiswick 

 in 1830. 



179. PILE'S RUSSET. Miller, Ed. 8. No. 17- 

 Fruit above the middle size, irregularly formed, with 



broad ribs extending from the base to the crown, where 

 it is rather narrow, two inches and three quarters in 

 diameter, and two inches and a quarter deep. Eye 



