APPLES. 17 



An excellent culinary apple ; in use during September and October. 



This varietjr was raised by the Rev. S. Breedon, D.D., of Bere Court, near 

 Fangbourne, m Berkshire. 



BESS POOL. — Fruit, above medium size, two inches and three 

 quarters wide, and nearly three inches high ; conical, and handsomely 

 shaped. Skin, yellow with a few markings of red on the shaded side ; 

 but where exposed to the sun it is almost entirely washed and striped 

 with fine clear red. Eye, small and partially open, set in a rather 

 deep and plaited basin, which is surrounded with five prominent knobs 

 or ridges. Stalk, short and thick, inserted in a rather shallow cavity, 

 with generally a fleshy protuberance on one side of it, and surrounded 

 with yellowish brown russet, which extends over a considerable portion 

 of the base. Flesh, white, tender, and juicy, vrith a fine, sugary, and 

 vinous flavour. 



A very handsome and excellent apple, either for culinary or dessert 

 use. It is in season from November to March. 



The tree is hardy, a vigorous grower, but an indifferent bearer till it 

 is old. The flowers are very late in expanding, and are, therefore, not 

 Uable to be injured by spring frosts ; but they are so crowded in 

 clusters, and the stalks are so slender and weak, they suffer much if 

 attacked by honeydew or aphis. 



This is a Nottinghamshire apple. Mr. Pearson, of Chilwell, says, "My father 

 became so in love with the Bess Pool that he planted it largely. He used to tell 

 how a girl named Bess Pool found in a wood the seedling tree full of ripe fruit ; how, 

 showing the apples in her father's house — he kept a village inn — the tree became 

 known, and my grandfather procured grafts. He would then show the seven first- 

 planted trees of the kind in one of our nurseries, tell how Loudon had been to see 

 them and given an account of them in his Gardener's Magazine, make his 

 visitors try to clasp round their boles, and measure the space covered by their 

 branches. He woijl^ then boast how, one season, when apples were very scarce, 

 the fruit of these trees was sold at 7s. 6d. a-peck, and made £70, or an average of 

 £10 a- tree. 



" So far from thinking the Bess Pool a regular bearer, I believe it to be a Very 

 uncertain one, and anything but a profitable one to plant." 



BEST BACHE (Bache's Kernel). — Fruit, medium sized ; oblong, 

 with obtuse angles on the sides, which extend to the apex. Skin, 

 yellow, shaded with pale red, and streaked with darker red, interspersed 

 with a few black specks. Eye, small, segments short and flat. Stalk, 

 short and stout. 



Specific gravity of the juice, 1073. 



A cider apple, grown in the south-east part of Herefordshire. 



BETSEY. — Fruit, small, about two, inches wide, and an inch and 

 three quarters high ; roundish, inclining to conical and flattened. 

 Skin, dark green at first, and considerably covered with ashy grey 

 russet, but changing to pale yellow, and with a brownish tinge on the 

 side next the sun. Eye, open, with short reflexed segments, and set in 

 a very shallow depression. Stalk, short, about a quarter of an inch 

 long, with a fleshy protuberance on one side of it, and inserted in a 



