82 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



Lady Apple. See Api. 



Lady de Grey's. See Kentish Fill-basket. 



Lady Derby. See Whorle Pippin. 



LADY HENNIKEK. — Fruit, very large, roundish, narrowing a little 

 towards the apex, and with blunt angles on the sides, which terminate 

 in prominent ridges round the eye. Skin, yellow on the shaded side, 

 with a faint blush of red, which is covered with broken streaks of 

 crimson, on the side next the sun. Eye, large and open, with short 

 segments, and set in a very deep and angular basin. Stalk, very short, 

 set in a very deep, wide, russety cavity. Flesh, very tender in the grain, 

 well flavoured, and with a pleasant perfume. 



A first-rate apple, chiefly valuable as a cooking variety, but useful 

 also in the dessert. October to February. 



This apple was raised at Thomham Hall, near Eye in Suffolk, and the account 

 of it, furnished by Mr. John Perkins, the gardener there, is the following: — 



" Between the years 1840 and 1850 the late Lord Henniker had great quantities 

 of cider made to give away in the summer months. Several bushels of apple pips 

 were sown in beds, from which the most promising seedlings were selected and 

 planted ; these were reduced every few years. The last thinning was about seven 

 years ago, when thirty-three trees were cut out. The tree in question was always 

 the favourite, and it has been carefully preserved. It is largely used here when 

 large and handsome dishes of mixed frait are required for the dinner-table. Its 

 appearance by lamplight is most telling. The tree is very healthy, and a great 

 bearer." 



LADY'S DELIGHT. — Fruit, medium sized, three inches wide, 

 and two inches and a quarter high ; oblate, and ribbed on the sides. 

 Skin, smooth and shining, greenish yellow, marked with a number of 

 imbedded dark-green specks ; washed with red on the side next the 

 sun, and with a circle of red rays round the base. Eye, partially 

 closed, with broad and flat segments, set in an angular and plaited 

 basin. Stalk, short and slender, inserted in a round and rather deep 

 cavity. Flesh, white, tender, crisp, very juicy, sweet, brisk, and 

 pleasantly aromatic. 



An excellent culinary or dessert apple, highly esteemed about 

 Lancaster, where it is much grown ; it is in use from October to 

 Christmas. The habit of the tree is di-ooping, like that of the Weeping 

 Willow. 



LADY'S FINGER. — Fruit, below medium size, two inches and a 

 quarter wide, and two inches and three quarters high ; pyramidal, 

 rounded at the base, distinctly five-sided, flattened at the apex, where 

 it is terminated in five prominent knobs, with a smaller one between 

 each. Skin, smooth, dull greenish yellow, strewed with minute grey 

 russety dots ; tinged on the side next the sun with a dull blush, which 

 is interspersed with spots of deep lively red. Eye, small, and par- 

 tially closed, set in a small and regularly notched basin. Stalk, slender, 

 short, and obliquely inserted under a fleshy protuberance. Flesh, 

 yellow, tender, juicy, and pleasantly acid. 



