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next the sun. Eye, closed. Stalk, long and slender. Flesh, white, 

 very tender, juicy, and with a fine sub-acid flavour. 



A first-rate culinary apple ; in use from December to January. The 

 tree forms an excellent pyramid or dwarf bush, and is an abundant 

 and early bearer. 



WINTER LADING. — Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three 

 quarters wide at the middle, and two inches and a half high ; roundish, 

 and narrowing towards the crown, irregularly formed, sometimes with 

 one prominent angle on one side. Skin, bright green, marked with 

 patches and dots of thin russet. Eye, closed, set in an angular basin. 

 Stalk, three quarters of an inch long, curved, inserted in a deep, round 

 cavity. Flesh, greenish white, juicy, sweet, very tender and delicate, 

 with a pleasant acid. 



An excellent sauce apple ; in use from October to Christmas. 



It is grown in tbe north-eastern parts of Sussex, about HeathSeld, 



WINTER MAJETIN. — ^Fruit, medium sized ; roundish-ovate, with 

 ribs round the crown. Skin, smooth, dark ■ green, covered with thin 

 dull brownish red on the side next the sun. Eye, small and open, set 

 in a deep basin, which is much furrowed and plaited. Stalk, three 

 quarters of an inch long, slender, inserted in a deep and narrow cavity, 

 which is lined with russet. Flesh, greenish white, firm, crisp, brisk, 

 and pleasantly flavoured. 



A first-rate culinary apple, bearing a considerable resemblance to 

 the London Pippin, but does not change to yeUow colour by keeping 

 as that variety does. It is in use from January to May. The tree is 

 an abundant bearer. 



This variety is, strictly speaking, a Norfolk apple, where it is much grown for 

 the local markets. It was first made public by Mr. George Lindley, who intro- 

 duced it to the notice of the London Horticultural Society. In the " Guide to the 

 Orchard," it is stated that the Aphis Lauigera, or " Meally Bug," so destructive 

 to most of our old orchard trees, seems to be set at defiance by the Majetin. " An 

 old tree now growing in a garden belonging to Mr. William Youngman, of Norwich, 

 which had been grafted about three feet high in the stem, has been for many years 

 attacked by this insect below the grafted parr, but never above it, the limbs and 

 branches being to this day perfectly free, although all the other trees in the same 

 garden have been Infested more or less with it." 



WINTER PEARMAIN {Old Pearmain ; Dock's 5i7/).— Fruit, 

 large, three inches and a quarter wide, and about the same in 

 height ; of a true pearmain shape, somewhat five-sided towards the 

 crown. Skin, smooth and shining, at first of a greenish yellow, 

 marked with faint streaks of duU red on the shaded side, and entirely 

 covered with deep red on the side next the sun, but changes by 

 keeping to fine deep yellow streaked with flesh colour on the shaded 

 side, but of a beautiful, clear, deep red or crimson on the side next 

 the sun, and strewed all over with small russety dots. "Eye, large 

 and open, with short segments, set in a pretty deep and prominently 

 plaited basin. Stalk, very short, not exceeding a quarter of an inch 



