THE APPLE. ITS VARIETIES. 125 



A culinary apple much grown about Lancaster ; it is in use from 

 November, to March or April. 



This is a very different apple from the White Paradise, which is some- 

 times called " The Lady's Finger." 



205. LAMB ABBEY PEARMAIN.— Hort. 



Identification. — Hort. Trans, vol. v. p. 269. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 2, .'549. Lind. 

 Guide, 74. Diel Kernobst. vi. B. 84. 



Syhonyme. — Laneb Abbey Pearmain, M'lnt. Orch. 24. 



Figures. — Hort. Trans, vol. v. t. 10, f. 2. Ron. Pyr. Mai. pi. xxi. f. 2. 



Fruit, small; roundish or oblato-oblong, regularly and handsomely 



shaped. Skin, smooth 

 greenish-yellow on the 

 shaded side, but becoming 

 clear yellow when at matu- 

 rity ; on the side next the 

 sun it is dull orange, streak- 

 ed and striped with red, 

 which becomes more faint 

 as it extends to the shaded 

 side, and dotted all over 

 with minute, punctured, 

 russety dots. Eye, rather 

 large, and open, with long, 

 broad segments, reflexed at 

 the tips, and set in a wide, 

 deep and plaited basin. 

 Stalk, from a quarter to 

 half-an-inch long, slender, deeply inserted in a russety cavity. Flesh, 

 yellowish-white, firm, crisp, very juicy and sugary, with a brisk, and 

 rich vinous flavor. 



A dessert apple of first-rate quality, and very valuable, both as regards 

 the richness of its flavor, and- the long period to which it remains in perfec- 

 tion ; it is in use from January, and keeps till April without shrivelling. 

 The tree is healthy, a free grower, and good bearer. 

 This variety was raised in the year 1804, by the wife of Neil Malcolm 

 Esq. of Lamb Abbey, near Dartford in Kent, from the pip of an import- 

 ed fruit of the Newtown Pippin. 



206. LARGE YELLOW BOUGH.— Down. 



Identification. — Down. Fr. Amer. 74. 



Stnonymes. — ^Large Early Yellow Bough, Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. Sweet Bough, 



ace. Kenrick. Early Bough, Ken. Amer. Or. 26. Bough, Coxe, View, 101. 



Sweet Harvest, ace. Down. 



Fruit, above medium size ; oblong oval, handsomely and regularly 

 formed. Skin, smooth, pale greenish-yellow. Eye, set in a narrow and 

 deep basin. Stalk, rather long. Flesh, white, very tender, crisp, and 

 very juicy, with a rich, sweet, sprightly flavor. 



