THE FEUIT MANUAL. 



BITTER ALMONDS.— Besides the common, there are several 

 varieties of the Bitter Almond, such as the Large Fruited, the Tender- 

 Shelled, and the Amandier d'ltalie, but as they cannot be regarded as 

 esculent fruit, and as they are not Hkely ever to be cultivated m 

 British fruit gardens, even as objects of curiosity, it is foreign to the 

 design of this work to introduce them here. 



APPLES. 



ACKLAM RUSSET {Aclemy Emss««).— Fruit, below the medium size, 

 two inches and a quarter wide, and two inches high ; round and some- 

 what flattened. Skin, pale yellow tinged with green, and covered with 

 thin grey russet, particularly on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, 

 small and closed, set in a smooth, round, and shallow basin. Stalk, 

 short, inserted in a moderately deep cavity. Flesh, white with a 

 greenish tinge, firm, crisp, juicy, and highly flavoured. 



An excellent dessert apple of first-rate quality ; ripe in November, - 

 and will keep under favourable circumstances till March. The tree is 

 very hardy, and an excellent bearer. It succeeds best in a dry soil, 

 and is well adapted for espalier training. 



This variety originated at the village of Acklam, in Yorkshire. 



Aclemy Russet. See Acklam Russet. 



ADAMS'S PEARMAIN {Norfolk Pippin).— Frmt, large, varying 

 from two inches and a half to three inches high, and about the same in 

 breadth at the widest part ; pearmain-shaped, very even, and regularly 

 formed. Skin, pale yellow tinged with green, and covered with delicate 

 russet on the shaded side ; but deep yellow tinged with red, and deli- 

 cately streaked with livelier red on the side next the sun. Eye, small 

 and open, with acute erect segments, set in a narrow, round, and plaited 

 basin. Stalk, varying from half an inch to an inch long, obliquely 

 inserted in a shallops cavity, and generally with a fleshy protuberance 

 on one side of it. Flesh, yellowish, crisp, juicy, rich, and sugary, with 

 an agreeable and pleasantly perfumed flavour. 



A dessert apple of first-rate quality ; in use from December to 

 February. It is a large and very handsome variety, and worthy of 

 general cultivation. The tree is a free and healthy gi-ower, producing 

 long slender shoots, by which, and its cucuUated ovate leaves, it is easily 

 distinguished. It is an excellent bearer even in a young state, particu- 

 larly on the paradise or doucin stock, and succeeds well as an espalier. 



^sopus Spitzenberg. See Esopus Spit^eiiberi/. 



Alexander. See Emperor Ah.vniuh'r. 



