90 THE FEUIT MANUAL. 



A very valuable early culinary apple, of first-rate quality. It is ripe 

 in the beginning of August, and continues in use till November. 



The tree is very hardy and healthy, but not a large grower. It is 

 a very early and abundant bearer, young trees in the nursery quarters 

 generally producing a considerable quantity of fruit when only two 

 years old from the grafts. It is well suited for planting in exposed 

 situations, and succeeds well in shallow soils. It forms a beautiful little 

 tree when grafted on the paradise stock, and is well adapted for espa- 

 lier training. 



MANNINGTON'S PEAEMAIN.— Eruit, medium sized; abrupt 

 pearmain-shaped. Skin, of a rich golden yeUow colour, covered with 

 thin brown russet on the shaded side, but covered with dull brownish 

 red on the side next the sun. Eye, partially closed, with broad flat 

 segments, set in a shallow and plaited basin. Stalk, three quarters of 

 an inch long, obliquely inserted in a moderately deep cavity, with gene- 

 rally a fleshy protuberance on one side of it. Flesh, yellow, firm, 

 crisp, juicy, and very sugary, with a brisk and particularly rich flavour. 



This is one of the best and richest flavoured of our dessert apples ; 

 it comes into use in October and November, and continues in good 

 condition tUl March. 



A communication of some importance was sent me by Mr. Cameron, 

 of Uckfield, by whom this variety was first propagated. He says the 

 fruit should be allowed to hang late on the tree before it is gathered, 

 so as to secure its peculiar richness of flavour, and long period of 

 duration ; for if gathered too soon, it loses much of its fine richness 

 and is very apt to shrivel. 



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

 early and excellent bearer ; young trees, only two or three years from 

 the graft, producing a considerable crop of handsome, well grown 

 fruit. 



This esteemed variety originated about the year 1770, in a garden now in the 

 possession of Mr. Mannington, a respectable butcher at Uckfield, in Sussex. At 

 the time it was raised the garden belonged to Mr. Turley, a blacksmith, and grand- 

 father of Mr. Mannington. The original tree grew up at the root of a hedge, 

 where the refuse from a cider press had been thrown ; it never attained any great 

 size, but continued to preserve a stunted and diminutive habit of gro\vth, till it 

 died about the year 1820. Previous to this, however, grafts had been freely dis- 

 tributed to persons in the neighbourhood, many of whom were anxious to possess 

 such a desideratum ; but it does not seem to have been known beyond its own 

 locality till the autumn of 1847, when Mr. Mannington caused specimens of the 

 fruit to be forwarded to the London Horticultural Society, and by whom it was 

 pronounced to be a dessert fruit of the highest excellence. It was designated by 

 Mr. Thompson " Mannington's Pearmain." 



MAEGAEET {Early Bed Margaret; Early Red Juneating ; Red 

 Juneating ; Striped Juneating; Early Striped Juneating; Striped 

 Quarrenden ; Summer Traveller; Eve Apple, in Ireland; Early Mar^ 

 garet; Marget Apple; Maudlin; Magdalene; Marguerite; Lammas). 

 »— Fruit, medium sized; roundish-ovate, and narrowing towards the 

 eye, where it is angular. Skin, greenish yellow on the shaded side, 



