98 APPLES. 



known in 1818 by Mr. Robertson, of Kilkenny. It is 

 certainly one of the best of our modern apples, and 

 cannot have too general a cultivation. 



187. SCARLET NONPAREIL. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 670. 

 Pom. Mag. t. 87. 



Fruit middle-sized, larger than the old Nonpareil, 

 about two inches and a half deep, and three inches in 

 diameter, roundish, without any angles on its sides. 

 Eye shallow, placed in a regularly-formed depression, 

 surrounded with very small plaits. Stalk variable in 

 length, sometimes nearly an inch long, sometimes a thick 

 fleshy knob. Skin deep red next the sun, sprinkled 

 with pale brown dots ; the shaded part yellowish green, 

 passing off into streaks towards the junction of the two 

 colours. Flesh firm, yellowish white, juicy, rich, and 

 very excellent. 



A dessert apple from November till March. 



The Scarlet Nonpareil was raised in a garden belong- 

 ing to a public house at Esher, in Surrey, about 1773, 

 from a seed of the old Nonpareil. Mrs. Grimwood pur- 

 chased the original stock, from which some plants were 

 obtained by Mr. Kirke, whose annual exhibitions in his 

 garden of large quantities of its beautiful fruit have 

 caused its cultivation now to be extended to almost 

 every part of England, where it cannot fail of being uni- 

 versally admired. It is a very hardy sort, and a great 

 and constant bearer. The Schafer apple of the Ger- 

 mans, quoted in the Hort. Soc. Cat. as a synonym^to 

 this, is found to be a distinct variety. 



188. SIELY'S MIGNONNE. G. Lind. Cat. 1805. 

 Pride of the Ditches. Local, in Norwich. 



Fruit rather small, about one inch and three quarters 

 deep, and the same in diameter. It is not quite cir- 

 cular, in consequence of one of its sides being occa- 

 sionally a little flattened, but is without any angles. 

 Eye small, with a closed calyx, placed somewhat deeply 



