12 THE FKUIT MANUAL. 



Balgone Pippin. See Golden Pippin. 



BANK APPLE. — Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quar- 

 ters wide, and about two inches and a half high; roundish-ovate, 

 regularly and handsomely formed. Skin, greenish yellow, with a blush 

 and faint streaks of red next the sun, dotted all over with minute dots, 

 and marked with several large spots of rough russet ; the base is 

 covered with a coating of russet, strewed with silvery scales. Eye, 

 large and open, set in a shallow and plaited basin. Stalk, half an inch 

 long, obliquely inserted by the side of a fleshy prominence. Flesh, 

 firm, crisp, brisk, juicy, and pleasantly acid, resembling the Winter 

 Greening in flavour. 



It is an excellent culinary apple, in use from November to 

 February ; but as it has nothing to recommend it, in preference to 

 other varieties already in cultivation, it need only be grown in large 

 collections. 



The original tree was produced from a pip, accidentally sown in the home 

 nursery of Messrs. Eonalds, of Brentford, and from growing on a bank by the side 

 of a ditch, it was called the Sank Apple. 



BAECELONA PEAKMAIN {SpeckM Golden Reinette ; Speckled 

 Pearmain; Polinia Pearmain). — Fruit, of medium size ; oval. Skin, 

 clear pale yellow, mottled with red in the shade, but dark red next 

 the sun, the whole covered with numerous star-like russety specks, 

 those on the shaded side being brownish, and those next the sun 

 yellow. Eye, small and open, with erect acuminate segments, and set 

 in a round, even, and pretty deep basin. Stalk, about an inch long, 

 slender, inserted in a rather shallow cavity, which is lined with russet. 

 Flesh, yellowish white, firm, crisp, very juicy, and with a rich, vinous, 

 and highly aromatic flavour. 



One of the best dessert apples, and equally valuable for culinary 

 purposes. It comes to perfection about the end of November, and 

 continues in use till March. 



The tree is a free grower, but does not attain the largest size. It is 

 very hardy, an abundant bearer, and succeeds well either as a standard 

 or an espalier. 



In the third edition of the Horticultural Society's Catalogue, this is said to be 

 the same as Reinette Rouge. I do not think that it is the Reinette Rouge of the 

 French, which Duhamel describes as being white, or clear yellow in the shade, 

 having often prominent ribs round the eye, which extend down the sides, so as to 

 render the shape angular ; a character at variance with that of the Barcelona 

 Pearmain. But I have no doubt of it being the Reinette Rousse of the same author, 

 which IS described at page 302, vol. i., as a variety of Reinette Fi-anche, and which 

 he says is of an elongated shape, skin marked with a great number of russety spots, 

 the most part of which are of a longish figure, so much so, when it is ripe, it 

 appears as if variegated with yellow and red ; a character in every way applicable 

 to the Barcelona Pearmain. j rr 



BARCHARD'S SEEDLING.— Fruit, below medium size ; roundish 

 ovate, with broad obtuse angles on the sides, terminating in knobs round 

 the crown. Skin, lemon yellow, striped with crimson on the side next the 



