158 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



rally five-sided, with prominent ribs on the sides, which extend to the 

 apex, forming considerable ridges round the eye. Skin, smooth, yel- 

 lowish green, and marked with dark dots. Eye, large and open, set in 

 a deep and very angular basin. Stalk, half an inch long, mserted m 

 a deep, smooth, and angular cavity. Flesh, greenish white, tender, 

 juicy, sweet, and sub-acid. 



A fine old culinary apple of first-rate quality ; in use from September 

 to February. 



The tree is a strong, vigorous, and healthy grower, and an excellent 

 bearer. 



WINTER COLMAN {Norfolk Caiman; Norfolk Storing). — ^Fruit, 

 above medium size ; roundish and flattened. Skin, pale yellow, mot- 

 tled with red on the shaded side, but deep red on the side next the 

 sun. Eye, open, set in a rather shallow and plaited basin. Stalk, 

 short, thick, and deeply inserted. Flesh, firm, crisp, and briskly acid. 



A culinary apple of first-rate quality; in use from November to 

 AprU. 



The tree is a very strong and vigorous grower, so much so, that in 

 its young state it is not a great bearer, but when grafted on the para- 

 dise stock it produces abundantly. 



WESITER GREENING {French Grab; Easter Pippin; Claremont 

 Pippin; Ironstone Pippin; Young's Long Keeping; John Apple). — 

 Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters wide, and two 

 inches and a quarter high ; roundish, widest at the middle, and nar- 

 rowing towards the crown, round which are a few small ridges. Skin, 

 smooth and shining, of a dark lively green, strewed with minute russety 

 dots, and with a blush of dull red where exposed to the sun. Eye, 

 small and closed, set in a shallow and plaited basin. Stalk, half an 

 inch long, inserted in a round cavity, which is Hned with russet. 

 Flesh, greenish, very close in texture, brittle and juicy, with a very 

 poignant and pleasant acid. 



A culinary apple of first-rate quality, which comes into use in 

 November, and has been known to last under favourable circumstances 

 for two years. Dry sand is a good article to preserve it in. 



The tree is very hardy, a free and good grower, and an abundant 

 bearer. 



I have not adopted here the nomenclatnre of the Horticultural Society's Cata- 

 logue, for two reasons. First, because Winter Greening is the previous name, and, 

 so far as I can find, the original one. It is also very applicable, and not subject to 

 the same objection which Mr. Lindley has to French Crab. Second, because 

 there is already in the Horticultural Society's Catalogue the " White Easter" — tbe 

 " Paasch Appel" of Knoop — and the two names being so similar may tend to con- 

 fusion, a result of already too frequent occurrence, and most desirable to be avoided. 

 The name Winter Greening is also more descriptive. 



WINTER HAWTHORNDEN {New Hawthornden).—Ft\nt, large ; 

 roundish-ovate, and altogether not unlike the Old Hawthoruden in 

 appearance. Skin, greenish, with a browuish red tinge on the side 



