74 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



HUNT'S DUKE OF GLOUCESTER.— Fruit, below medium size; 

 roundish-ovate. Skin, almost entirely covered with thin russet, except 

 a spot on the shaded side, where it is green, and where exposed to the 

 sun it is of a reddish brown. Flesh, white, tinged with green, crisp, 

 juicy, and highly flavoured. 



A dessert apple of first-rate quality ; in use from December to 



February. 



This variety was raised from a seed of the old Nonpareil, to which it bears a 

 strong resemblance, by Dr. Fry of Gloucester, and received the name it now bears 

 from being sent to the Horticultural Society of London by Thomas Hunt, Esq., 

 of Stratford-on-Avon, in 1820. 



Hunt's Nonpareil. See Nonpareil. 



HUNTHOUSE. — Fruit, of medium size, two inches and three 

 quarters -wide, by two inches and a half high ; conical, ribbed on the 

 sides, and terminated at the apex with rather prominent knobs. Skin, 

 at first grass-green, but changing as it ripens to greenish yeUow; where 

 exposed to the sun it is tinged with red, and marked with small crimson 

 dots and a few short broken streaks of the same colour, but where 

 shaded it is veined with thin brown russet, particularly about the eye, 

 and very thinly strewed with russety dots. Eye, large, half open, with 

 broad flat segments, set in a narrow and deeply furrowed basin. Stalk, 

 an inch long, straight, inserted in a very shallow cavity, sometimes 

 between two fleshy lips, but generally with a fleshy protuberance on one 

 side of it. Flesh, greenish white, firm, tender, and with a brisk but 

 rather coarse and rough acid flavour. 



A useful culinary apple ; in use from December to March. 



Its chief recommendation is the immense productiveness of the tree, 

 which is rather small, with pendulous shoots, and extremely hardy ; 

 it succeeds in exposed situations where many other varieties could not 

 grow. 



This variety was discovered at Whitby, in Yorkshire, where it is extensively 

 cultivated. 



Hutchings's Seedling. See Sugar-loaf Pippin. 



HUTTON SQUAEE.— Fruit, large ; roundish-ovate, and irregular 

 in its outline, being much bossed on the sides, and knobbed about the 

 eye and the stalk. Skin, smooth, dull greenish yellow where shaded, 

 and strewed with minute russety dots, but washed with dull red next 

 the sun, and dotted with black dots. Eye, small and closed, placed in 

 an angular and plaited basin. Stalk, short, deeply imbedded in an 

 angular cavity. Flesh, white, firm, crisp, sweet, briskly and pleasantly 

 flavoured. 



A valuable culinary apple of first-rate quality, and not unsuitable for 

 the dessert, where a brisk and poignant flavoured apple is preferred ; it 

 is in use from November to March. The tree is an excellent bearer. 



This varietjf is extensively grown about Lancaster, and is said to have origi- 

 nated at the village of Hutton, in that vicinity. 



