100 APPLES. 



A dessert apple from the middle of November till 

 March. 



This very fine apple was raised by J. N. Parker, Esq. 

 in 1807, a t Sweeney, in Shropshire. The tree is an 

 abundant bearer, and the fruit sometimes grows to a 

 large size ; the largest it ever produced was in 1818, 

 measuring eleven inches and a quarter in circumference, 

 and weighing nine ounces and a quarter. Twenty of its 

 fruit, exhibited at the Horticultural Society in 1820, 

 weighed seven pounds thirteen ounces avoirdupoise. 



190. SYKEHOUSE RUSSET. Hooker, Pom. Lond. 

 t. 40. Pom. Mag. t.Sl. 



Prager, of some Dutch Collections, according to the 

 Pom. Mag. 



Fruit flat, middle-sized, of a roundish figure, and 

 much flattened at both extremities, nearly three inches 

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

 open, deeply sunk in an open even basin. Stalk vari- 

 able in length, and not deeply inserted. Skin greenish 

 yellow, more or less covered with a thin grey russet, 

 which in some seasons almost entirely disappears ; on 

 the sunny side, of a deep rich brown, interspersed with 

 small russetty patches. Flesh greenish white, approach- 

 ing to yellow when fully matured, firm, juicy, with a 

 fine subacid flavour. 



A dessert apple from December till March. 



This most excellent apple derives its name from the 

 village of Sykehouse, in Yorkshire. Its young wood \s 

 somewhat long-jointed, very straight and erect, and 

 grows to a greater length in one season than any other 

 apple I have ever propagated. It is a hardy tree, and a 

 good bearer, but best grafted on the Doucin stock, and 

 trained in the garden as an espalier. 



191. WHEELER'S RUSSET. Miller, Ed. 8. No. 16. 

 Fruit middle-sized, irregularly shaped and somewhat 



flat, from two inches and a half to two inches and three 



