134 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



An excellent dessert apple of first-rate quality ; it is in use from 

 November to January. 

 This is the true old Seek-no-farther. 



SEIGENDE KEINETTE. — Fruit, medium sized, roundish pear- 

 main-shaped. Skin, rich yellow, tinged and streaked with red next 

 the sun, and a patch of russet round the stalk. Eye, fair sized, closed; 

 the segments of the calyx reflexed, set in a shallow, somewhat irregular 

 basin. Stalk, about half an inch long, slender, pretty deeply inserted. 

 Flesh, yellowish, firm, juicy, and sweet. In many respects this comes 

 near the King of the Pippins, but is, however, quite distinct, and of 

 superior quality. 



A good dessert apple ; in use from October to January. The tree is 

 a great bearer. 



I received this from Mr. Oberdieck, of Hanover. 



SELWOOD'S KEINETTE. — Fruit, large, three inches wide, and 

 about two inches and a half high ; round and flattened, angular on the 

 sides, and with five prominent plaits round the eye, which is small, open, 

 and not at all depressed, but rather elevated on the surface. Skin, pale 

 green, almost entirely covered with red, which is marked with broken 

 stripes of darker red, those on the shaded side being paler, and not so 

 numerous as on the side exposed to the sun. Stalk, about half an inch 

 long, very stout, and inserted the whole of its length in a russety cavity. 

 Flesh, greenish white, tender, brisk, and pleasantly flavoured. 



A culinary apple, of good, but not first-rate quality ; it is in use 

 from December to March. 



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



This is certainly a different variety from the Selwood's Reinette of the Horti- 

 cultural Society's Catalogue, which is described as being small, pearmain-shaped, 

 greenish yellow, and a dessert apple. It is, however, identical with the Selwood's 

 Beinette of Rogers, who, as we are informed in his " Fruit Cultivator," received it 

 upwards of eighty years ago from Messrs. Hewitt & Co. of Brompton. The 

 tree now in my possession I procured as a graft from the private garden of the 

 late Mr. Lee, of Hammersmith ; and as it has proved to be the same as Rogers's 

 variety, I am induced to think that it is correct, while that of the Horticultural 

 Society is wrong. It was raised by a person of the name of Selwood, of Lancaster. 



SHAKE SPERE. — ^Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three 

 quarters wide, and two inches and a half high ; roundish, narrowing 

 a little towards the eye. Skin, dark green on the shaded side, and 

 brownish red on the side next the sun, which is marked with a few 

 broken stripes of darker red, the whole strewed with russety dots. 

 Eye, small and partially open, set in a narrow and irregular basin, 

 which is ridged round the margin. Stalk, short and slender, inserted 

 in a rather deep cavity. Tlesh, greenish yellow, fii-m, crisp, and juicy, 

 with a brisk vinous flavour. 



An excellent dessert apple of first-rate quality ; in use from Christ- 

 mas to April. 



This variety was raised by Thomas Hunt, Esq., of Stratford-on-Avon, from the 

 seed of Hunt's Duke of Gloucester, and named in honour of the poet Shakespere. 



