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several deep russety furrows. Stalk, short, deeply inserted in an uneven 

 and angular cavity, which is partially lined with russet. Flesh, yellowish, 

 crisp, juicy, and slightly sub-acid, but with an agreeable flavor. 



A first-rate dessert apple ; in use from December to March, and ripens 

 better in this climate than the Newtown Pippin. 



401. YORKSHIRE GREENING.— Fors. 



Identification.— Fors. Treat. 131. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3,ii. 889. Lind. Guide, 

 60. Eog. Er. Cult. 60. 



Stnonymes. — Coates's, Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1, 165. Seek-no-farther, Ibid. 1032. 

 Yorkshire Goose Sauce, ace. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. 



EiGUKE. — ^Eon. Pyr. Mai. pi. xi. f. 2. 



Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and two inches and a half 

 high ; oblate and slightly angular on the sides. Skin, very dark green ; 

 but where exposed to the sun, tinged with duU red, which is striped with 

 broken stripes of deeper red, very much speckled all over with rather 

 bold grey russet specks, and over the base with traces of greyish brown 

 russet. Eye, closed, set in a shallow, irregular, and plaited basin. 

 Stalk, short, stout, and fleshy, covered with grey tomentum, inserted 

 in a wide and rather shallow cavity. Flesh, greenish-white, firm, crisp, 

 and very juicy, with a brisk, but pleasant acidity. 



A first-rate culinary apple ; in use from October to January 



