42 THE FKUIT MANUAL. 



DE NEIGE (Fameuse; La Fameuse).—¥mit, about the medium 

 size, two inches and a half broad, and two inches high; roundish, 

 sometimes oblate. Skin, tender, smooth, and shining, of a beautiful 

 pale waxen yellow colour, tinged with pale red, on the shaded side, but 

 covered with deeper red on the side next the sun. Eye, small, half- 

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

 inserted in a round and pretty deep cavity. Flesh, pure white, very 

 tender and delicate, sweet, and pleasantly flavoured. 



A very beautiful and handsome apple, but not of great merit. It is 

 suitable for dessert use, and is in perfection from November to 

 January. 



The tree is of a small habit of growth, hardy, and bears well ; but 

 in some soUs it is liable to canker. 



This variety is supposed to be of Canadian origin, and was introduced to this 

 country by a Mr. Barclay of Brompton, near London. It is grown very extensively 

 in Canada, and is very highly appreciated. The name of Pomme de Neige hag 

 been applied to several very distinct varieties, and it can be traced back as far as 

 the beginning of the seventeenth century j but the variety to which it was then 

 applied, and which appears to have been a sort of early White Codlin, has long 

 since disappeared, and any attempt to identify it must rest on mere conjecture. 



DEVONSHIRE BUCKLAND {Dredge's White Lily; White Lily; 

 Lily Buckland). — Fruit above medium size, roundish, and flattened, 

 angular on the sides. Skin, waxen yellow, strevred with minute russet 

 dots. Eye, open. Stalk, deeply inserted. Flesh, yellow, crisp, very 

 juicy, brisk, sweet, and perfumed. 



A very good and useful apple, either for culinary or dessert use. 

 In season from October to February. 



DEVONSHIRE QUARRENDEN (Quarrington ; Red Quarrendm; 

 Sack Apple). — Fruit, rather below medium size ; oblate, and sometimes 

 a httle angular in its outline. Skin, smooth and shining, entirely 

 covered with deep purplish red, except where it is shaded by a leaf or 

 twig, and then it is of a delicate pale green, presenting a clear and 

 well-defined outhne of the object which shades it. Eye, quite closed, 

 with very long tomentose segiaents, and placed in an undulating and 

 shallow basin, which is sometimes knobbed, and generally lined with 

 thick tomentum. Stalk, about three quarters of an inch long, fleshy at 

 the insertion, deeply set in a round and funnel-shaped cavity. Flesh, 

 white tinged with gi-een, crisp, brisk, and very juicy, with a rich 

 vinous and refreshing flavour. 



A very valuable and first-rate dessert apple. It ripens on the tree 

 the first week in August, and lasts till the end of September. It is 

 one of the earhest summer dessert apples, and at that season is parti- 

 cularly relished for its fine, coohng, and refreshing vinous juice. 



The tree attains a considerable size ; it is particularly hardy, and a 

 most prolific bearer. It succeeds well in almost every soil and situa- 

 tion, and is admirably adapted for orchard planting. In almost every 

 latitude of Great Britain, from Devonshire to the Moray Frith, I have 



