APPLES. 



quarters in diameter, and two to two inches and a 

 quarter deep. Eye rather small, with a closed calyx, 

 placed in a rather shallow, uneven, broad-plaited 

 basin. Stalk short, inserted in a narrow funnel-shaped 

 cavity, seldom protruding beyond the base. Skin 

 pale yellowish grey russet quite round the fruit, and 

 on the sunny side of a lively brown, sprinkled with 

 russetty specks. Flesh firm, greenish white. Juice 

 not plentiful, but of a brisk, saccharine, aromatic flavour, 

 charged with acid. 



A dessert and culinary apple from November till 

 May. 



This is a very excellent winter apple ; and when highly 

 ripened and beginning to shrivel, is one of the best rus- 

 sets of its season. The tree is very hardy, grows hand- 

 somely, and is an excellent bearer. 



192. WHITE RUSSET. Hort. Trans. Vol. iii. p. 454. 



Fruit rather large, angular on its sides, about three 

 inches in diameter, and two inches and three quarters 

 deep. Eye wrinkled. Stalk short. Skin yellowish 

 russetty green, intermixed with white, and having a 

 little light red on the sunny side. Flesh firm, and 

 highly flavoured when in perfection, but apt to grow 

 mealy when too ripe. 



An Irish dessert apple, and in use there in Novem- 

 ber and December. 



SECT. VIII. Cider Apples* 



193. BENNET APPLE. Pom. Heref. t. 21. 



Fruit somewhat long, irregularly shaped, broad at its 

 base, and narrowing to the crown ; but sometimes 

 broader in the middle than at either of its extremities. 

 A few obtuse angles terminate at the eye, which is 

 small, with very short segments of the nearly closed 



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