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gold color, tinged with faint and deeper red on the sunny side. Juice 

 very sweet. Ripe in October. 



Specific gravity of the juice, 1091. 



A cider apple raised by T. A. Knight, Esq., and, along with the Foxley, 

 considered by him superior to any other varieties in cultivation. It 

 was produced from a seed of the Yellow Siberian Crab, fertilized with 

 the pollen of the Golden Harvey, the juice of this variety is most in- 

 tensely sweet, and is probably, very nearly what that of the Golden 

 Harvey would be in a southern climate, the original tree produced its 

 blossoms in the year 1807, when it first obtained the annual premium of 

 the Herefordshire Agricultural Society. 



331. SIELY'S MIGNONNE.— Lind. 



Identification. — Lind. Guide, 98. 



Synontme. — Pride of the Ditches, ace. Lind. Guide. 



Fruit, rather small, about one inch and three quarters deep, and the 

 same in diameter ; almost globular, but occasionally flattened on one 

 side. Eye, small, with a closed calyx, placed somewhat deeply in a 

 rather irregularly formed narrow basin, surrounded by a few small 

 plaits. Stalk, half-an-inch long, slender, about one half within the 

 base, in a narrow cavity, and occasionally pressed towards one side 

 by a protuberance on the opposite one. Skin, when clear, of a bright 

 yellow, but mostly covered with a grey netted russet, rendering the 

 skin scabrous. Flesh, greenish-yellow, firm, crisp, and tender. Juice, 

 saccharine, highly aromatic, and of a most excellent flavor. 



A dessert apple, in use from November to February. 



This neat and very valuable little apple, was introduced to notice 

 about the beginning of the present century, by the late Mr. Andrew 

 Siely, of Norwich, who had it growing in his garden on the Castle 

 Ditches, and being a favorite with him he always called it the "Pride 

 of the Ditches." The tree is a weak grower and somewhat tender. It 

 is therefore advisable to graft it on the doucin stock, and train it 

 either as a dwarf or as an espalier in a garden. — Lindley. 



332. SIR WILLIAM GIBBON'S.— Hort. 



Fruit, very large, three inches and three quarters wide, and three 

 inches high ; calville-shaped, being roundish-oblate, with several promi- 

 nent angles, which extend from the base to the apex, where they 

 terminate in five or six large unequal knobs. Skin, deep yellow, 

 tinged with green, and strewed with minute russety dots on the shaded 

 side ; but deep crimson, streaked with dark red, on the side exposed to 

 the sun. Eye, open, with short ragged segments, set in a deep, wide, 

 and irregular basin. Stalk, very short, imbedded in a deep and angular 

 cavity, which is lined with russet. Flesh, yellowish-white, crisp, juicy, 

 and slightly acid, with a pleasant vinous flavor. 



A very showy and excellent culinary apple, in use from November to 

 January. 



