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closed, with a somewhat long leafy calyx, seated in a 

 narrow, oblique, angular basin. Stalk short, deeply in- 

 serted in a wide uneven cavity, not protruding beyond 

 the base. Skin pale green, covered with a good deal 

 of russet, and tinged with muddy orange or dull brown 

 on the sunny side. Flesh very firm, crisp. Juice 

 saccharine, with a sub-acid briskness and aromatic 

 flavour. 



A dessert as well as culinary apple from November 

 till March or April, Towards the spring, when the 

 fruit begins to shrivel, the Pile's Russet is an excellent 

 table fruit. 



180. PINE- APPLE RUSSET. G. Lindl. Plan of an 

 Orchard, 1796, 



Hardingham's Russet, of the Norwich Gardens. 



Fruit above the middle size, roundish ovate, with broad 

 obtuse angles on its sides, 8 about two inches and three 

 quarters in diameter^ and two inches and a half deep. 

 Eye small, with a very short connivent calyx, placed in 

 a shallow depression, surrounded by ten rather unequal 

 plaits. Stalk an inch long, inserted in an uneven cavity, 

 one half of which protrudes beyond the base. Skin pale 

 greenish yellow, almost covered with white specks on 

 one part, and a thick scabrous yellowish russet on the 

 other, which extends round the stalk. Flesh very pale 

 yellow, crisp, very short and tender. Juice more 

 abundant than in any apple I have ever met with, as it 

 generally runs very copiously as soon as cut open, $ac- 

 charine, with that just proportion of acid which charac- 

 terises our most valuable fruits, and of a spicy aromatic 

 flavour, with a high perfume. 



A dessert apple from the end of September to the 

 middle of October. 



This most valuable apple has taken its name from its 

 abundance of juice, which somewhat resembles that of a 

 Pine-apple. ^ The oldest tree remembered in Norwich 

 was growing a century ago in a garden belonging to 



