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BRITISH rOMOLOGY, ETC. 



107. EARLY 



NONPAREIL.— Lind. 



Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 467. 



Soc. Cat. New Nonpareil, Ibid. 

 Hlcks'sFaiicy, Ron. Pyr. Mai. 4. Lacy's Non- 



Identification. — Lind. Plan. Or. 1796. 



Guide, 88. Rog Fr. Cult. 67. 

 Synonymes. — Stagg's Nonpareil, jicc. Hort. 



Summer NonpareS, Bon. Cat. 



pareil, ace. Sogers. 

 FiGDEE. — ^Eon. Pyr. Mai. pi. ii. f. 6. 



Fruit, medium sized ; somewhat oblato-ovate. Skin, 



covered 



Lind. 



dull yellow, 

 with thin 

 brownish grey russet, 

 and marked with large 

 russety dots. Eye, 

 open, placed in a 

 small, round, and ra- 

 ther shallow basin. 

 Stalk, half - an - inch 

 long, inserted in a 

 narrow, deep, and 

 russety cavity. Flesh, 

 yellowish-white, ten- 

 der, crisp, juicy, and 

 sugary, with a brisk 

 and rich aromatic fla- 

 vor, resembling the 

 old Nonpareil. 



A delicious apple 

 for the dessert, and of the first quality ; it is in use during October and 

 November, after which it becomes dry and meally. 



The tree is a free and upright grower, perfectly hardy, an early and 

 abundant bearer ; even in the nursery quarters it produces freely when 

 only two years from the graft. It is well adapted for dwarf and espalier 

 training, when grown on the paradise stock. 



This esteemed variety was raised about the year 1780, by a nursery- 

 man of the name of Stagg, at Caister, near Yarmouth, in Norfolk. The 

 name of Hicks's Fancy was given to it bj' Kirke, formerly a nursery- 

 man at Brompton, near London, from the circumstance of a person of 

 the name of Hicks, giving it the preference to the other varieties which 

 were fruited in the nursery. An instance of the absurd system by which 

 the names of fruits have been multiplied. 



108. EARLY SPICE.— Hort. 



Identification. — Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 786. 



Fruit, of medium size, two inches and three quarters wide, and two 

 inches and a quarter high ; roundish, and somewhat angular. Skin, 

 smooth, of an uniform pale yellow or straw color, and thinly strewed with 

 greenish dots. Eye, small and open, with long, reflexed segments, and 

 set in a small basin. Stalk, three quarters of an inch long, deeply in- 

 serted in a rather angular cavity, which is thickly lined with russet. 



