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basin. Stalk, half an incli long, inserted in a round and deep cavity. 

 Flesh, greenish yellow, tender, soft, brisk, sugary, and aromatic. 



An excellent, but not first-rate, apple ; suitable either for the des- 

 sert or culinary purposes. It is in use from November to March. 



BELLE GEIDELINE. — Fruit, medium sized ; round and regularly 

 formed. Skin, clear yellow, marbled and washed with clear red, and 

 intermixed with thin gi-ey russet next the sun. Bye, set in a deep, 

 round basin. Stalk, slender, deeply inserted in a round cavity. Flesh, 

 white, firm, crisp, and briskly flavoured. 



An excellent dessert apple ; in season from December to March. 

 The tree is healthy and vigorous, of the middle size, and an excellent 

 bearer. 



This beautiful variety was first brought into notice by Mr. George Lindley, who 

 found it growing in a small garden near Surrey Street Gates, Norwich, where it 

 had originated about the year 1770. Mr. Lindley first propagated it in 1793, ami 

 the original tree died about seven years afterwards. 



Belle Josephine. See Reinette Blanche d'Espagne. 



Bell's Scarlet. See Scarlet Peannain. 



BENNET APPLE. — Fruit, somewhat long, irregularly shaped, 

 broad at the base, and narrow at the apex, but sometimes broader at 

 the middle than either of the extremities. A few obtuse angles ter- 

 minate at the eye, which is small and nearly closed, with very short 

 segments. Stalk, half an inch long, and very slender. Skin, dingy 

 coloured russety grey in the shade, and shaded on the sunny side with 

 numerous streaks and patches of orange colour and muddy red. 



The specific gravity of the juice is 1073. 



This is a good cider apple, and produces liquor of great excellence when mixed 

 with other varieties. It is chiefly grown in the deep strong soils of the south-west 

 part of Herefordshire, and is common in the disirict known as the Golden Vale. 

 Knight says it was a very old variety, and was known previous to the 17th century, 

 but X have not been able to find any record of it in the early works on Pomology. 



BENWELL'S PEAEMAIN. — Fruit, medium sized ; pearmain- 

 shaped. Skin, dull green, with broken stripes of dull red on the side 

 next the sun. Eye, small, set in a shallow and slightly plaited basin. 

 Stalk, deeply inserted in a round cavity, scarcely protruding beyond 

 the base. Flesh, yellowish white, crisp, juicy, brisk, and aromatic. 



A dessert apple ; in use from December to January. 



It received its name from a gentleman of the name of Bcnwell, of Henley-on- 

 Thames, from whom it was received, and brought into cultivation by Kirke, a 

 nurseryman at Brompton. 



BERE COURT PIPPIN.-Fruit, medium sized; round, and slightlv 

 flattened. Skm, pale green, and changing to yellow as it ripens, with 

 stripes of red next the sun. Eye, open, placed in a wide and shaUow 

 basm. Stalk, msertod m a deep cavity. Flesh, crisp, iuicv and 

 briskly acid. '^ •* "' 



