76 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



A dessert apple of first-rate quality, and also valuable as a cider 

 fruit ; it is in use from September to January. 



The specific gravity of its juice is 1074. 



The tree does not attain a large size, but is hardy, healthy, and an 

 excellent bearer. It succeeds well when grafted on the paradise stock, 

 and grown as an open dwarf or an espalier. 



This is a very old variety, and is, no doubt, the " Orange Apple " of Kay and 

 Worlidge. According to Mr. Knight, it is by some supposed to have been intro- 

 duced from Normandy to the Isle of Wight, where it was first planted m the 

 garden at Wrexall Cottage, near the Undercliff, where it was growing in 1817. 

 There are several other varieties of apples known by the name of " Orange " and 

 " Orange Pippin," but they are all very inferior to this. 



ISLEWOKTH CEAB {Brentford Crab). — Fruit, medium sized, two 

 inches and three quarters wide, by the same in height ; conical. Skin, 

 smooth, of a pale yellow colour, with a deeper tinge where exposed to 

 the sun, and covered with small reddish brown dots. Eye, small and 

 open, with reflexed segments, set in a round and narrow basin. Stalk, 

 slender, inserted in a deep, round, and even cavity. Flesh, yeUowish 

 white, crisp, sweet, juicy, and pleasantly flavoured. 



A pretty good culinary apple of second-rate quality ; in use during 

 October ; but scarcely worth cultivation. 



Jerusalem. See Pigeon. 



JOANNETING {Oinetting ; Juneting ; Early Jenneting; White 

 Juneating ; Juneating ; Owen's Golden Beauty ; Primiting). —Fimt, 

 small ; round, and a little flattened. Skin, smooth and shining, pale 

 yellowish green in the shade, but clear yellow, with sometimes a faint 

 tinge of red or orange, next the sun. Eye, small and closed, surrounded 

 with a few small plaits, and set in a very shallow basin. Stalk, an inch 

 long, slender, and inserted in a shallow cavity, which is lined with 

 delicate russet. Flesh, white, crisp, brisk, and juicy, with a vinous 

 and slightly perfumed flavour, but becoming mealy and tasteless if kept 

 only a few days after being gathered. 



This is the earliest apple of the year ; it is in greatest perfection 

 when gathered ofi' the tree, or immediately afterwards, as it very soon 

 becomes dry and mealy. 



The tree does not attain a large size, but is hardy and healthy. It 

 is not a great bearer, which may, in a great measm-e, account for it not 

 being so generally cultivated as its earliness would recommend it to be. 

 If worked on the paradise stock it may be grown in pots, when the 

 fruit will not only be produced earlier, but in greater abundance than 

 on the crab or free stock. 



This is one of our oldest apples, and although generally known and popular, 

 seems to have escaped the notice of Miller, who does not even mention it in any of 

 the editions of his dictionary. As I have doubts of this being the Geneting of 

 Parkinson — his figure being evidently intended for the Margaret, which in some 

 districts is called Joanneting — the first mention we have of this variety is by Kea, 

 in 1665, who describes it as " a small, yellow, red -sided apple, upon a wall, ripe in 

 the end of June." 



