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at maturity, with a faint blush of red where it is exposed to the sun. 

 Eye, large, and set in a wide and deep basin. Stalk, short, thick, and 

 curved, inserted in a rather deep cavity. Flesh, firm, juicy, sugary, 

 and briskly acid. 



An excellent culinary apple ; in use from November to February. 



Hollow-eyed Pippin. See Hollow- Crowned Pippin. 

 Hood's Seedling. See Scarlet Pearmain. 



HORMEAD PEARMAIN {Arundel Pearmain; Hoi-mead Pippin). — 

 Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and the same in 

 height ; of the true pearmain shape, regular and handsome. Skin, of a 

 uniform clear yellow, strewed with brown russety dots. Eye, large and 

 closed, with long segments, and set in a shallow and uneven basin. 

 Stalk, very short and stout, deeply inserted. Flesh, white, tender, very 

 juicy, and pleasantly acid. 



An excellent apple, of first-rate quality for cuUnary use, and suitable 

 also for the dessert ; it is in season from October to March. 



Horrex's Pearmain. See Foulden Pearmain. 



HORSHAM RUSSET.— Fruit, about the size of the Nonpareil, but 

 not so regular in its outline, generally about two inches and a quarter 

 in diameter, and two inches deep. Eye, small and closed, in a small 

 depression without angles. Stalk, short, rather thick, rather deeply 

 inserted in a wide, uneven cavity. Skin, pale green, covered with a 

 thin yellowish grey russet round its upper part, with a pale salmon- 

 coloured tinge on the sunny side. Flesh, greenish "white, firm, crisp. 

 Juice, plentiful, of a high aromatic Nonpareil flavour. 



A dessert apple ; in season from November till March. 



Raised from the seed of a Nonpareil about 1821, by Mrs. Goose, of 

 Horsham St. Faith's, near Norwich. It is a very hardy tree, and a 

 good bearer. 



Horsley Pippin. See Hollandbury. 



HOSKREIGER.— Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and 

 two inches and three quarters high; roundish and considerably 

 flattened, almost oblate. Skin, of a fine grass-green, which changes as 

 it ripens to yellowish green, and marked with broad streaks of pale red 

 on the side next the sun, which is strewed with rather large russety 

 freckles. Eye, small and open, with erect, acute segments, and placed 

 in a rather deep, narrow, and undulating basin. Stalk, short, inserted 

 in a round funnel-shaped cavity, which is lined with pale brown 

 russet. Flesh, white, tender, crisp, and juicy, with a brisk and pleasant 

 flavour. 



A first-rate culinary apple ; in use from November till March. 



The tree is a vigorous and healthy grower, and an abundant bearer. 



Hubbard's. See Hubbard's Pearmain. 



