66 THK FBUIT MANUAL. 



GUERNSEY PIPPIN.— Fruit, small, cylindrical or conical. Skin, 

 mucli covered with brown russet on a greenish yellow ground, and with 

 a brownish red tmge next the sun. Eye, open. Stalk, very short. 

 Flesh, firm, crisp, juicy, and tender, sweet, brisk, and vinous. 



A first-rate desgert apple. From December till February. 



HAGLOE CEAB. — Fruit, small, two inches wide, and the same in 

 height; ovate, flattened, and irregularly shaped. Skin, pale yellow, 

 streaked with red next the sun, and covered with a few patches of grey 

 russet. Eye, open, with flat, reflexed segments. Stalk, short. Flesh, 

 soft and woolly, bTjt not dry. 



Specific gravity of its juice, 1081. 



This is a most excellent cider apple, the liquor it produces being 

 remarkable for its strength, richness, and high flavour. It requires, 

 however, to be grown in certain situations ; a dry soil with a calca- 

 reous subsoil being considered the best adapted for producing its cider 

 in perfection. 



Marshall says, " It was raised from seed by Mr. Bellamy, of Hagloe, in 

 Gloucestersliire, grandfather of the present Mr. Bellamy, near Ross, in Hereford- 

 shire, who draws from it (that is, from trees grafted with scions from this parent 

 stock) a liquor, which for richness, flavour, and pure on the spot, exceeds perhaps 

 every other fruit liquor which nature and art have produced. He has been offered 

 sixty guineas for a hogshead (about 110 gallons) of this liquor. He has likewise 

 been oifered bottle for bottle of wine, or spirituous liquors, the best to be produced j 

 and this without freight, duty, or even a mile of carriage to enhance its original 

 price." 



HALL DOOR. — Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and two 

 inches and three quarters high ; oblate, puckered round the eye. Skin, 

 pale green at first, but changing to duU yellow, streaked with red. 

 Eye, set in a wide and irregular basin. Stalk, short and thick, in- 

 serted in a moderately deep cavity. Flesh, white, firm, but coarse, 

 juicy, and pleasantly flavoured. 



A dessert apple of ordinary merit ; in use from December to March. 



HAMBLEDON DEUX ANS.— Fruit, large, three inches wide, and 

 two inches and a half high; roundish, rather broadest at the base. 

 Skin, greenish yellow in the shade, and dull red, streaked with broad 

 stripes of deeper and brighter red, on the side next the sun. Eye, 

 small and closed, set in a rather shallow basin. Stalk, short, inserted 

 in a shallow cavity. Flesh, greenish white, firm, crisp, not very juicy, 

 but richly and briskly flavoured. 



One of the most valuable culinary apples, and not unworthy of the 

 dessert ; it is in use from January to May, and is an excellent keeper. 



This variety originated at Hambledon, a village in Hampshire, where there are 

 several trees of a great age now iiv existence. 



Hammon's. See Hubbard's Peat-main. 



HANWELL SOURING?.— Fruit, above medium size, three inches 

 wide, and two inches and three quarters high ; roundish-ovate, angular. 



