OF WINTER APPLES. 



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51. HEREFORDSHIRE PEARMAIN. 



Royal Pearmain. 



Fruit of the medium size ; sides approaching to parallelism, oblong. Color red, arranged 

 in indistinct or nebulous stripes upon a yellow ground. Stem short; depression small. 

 Calyx large, open ; depression narrow, plaited. Flesh yellowish white, fine grained, 

 subacid ; flavor fine. 



52. CLAYGATE PEARMAIN. (Hort. Trans, vol. v. p. 402.) 

 Fruit of the medium size ; ground colors dull yellow, painted with carmine in broad stripes. 

 Flesh yellowish white, rather dry, but sugary and rich. English. 



53. FLUSHING SPITZENBURGH. 

 Fruit rather large, base rounded, tapering only moderately to the apex. Ground color 

 yellowish green, ornamented with red stripes. Calyx small. Flesh white, more sweet 

 than sour ; pleasant, but ranking only as second rate. 



54. RED RAUNCE. Platr 57. 



Fig. 45. 



Fruit of the medium size, elongated ; 

 subcircular ; one side lengthened. 

 Color, carmine stripes, with distinct 

 dots of gray. Dots elongated on 

 the base. Stem slender, equaling 

 the base. Calyx small, depression 

 shallow, plaits few. Flesh white, 

 or white and stained reddish ; ten- 

 der ; core small. Apple allied to the 

 Spitzenburgh. Exhibited by E. T. 

 Headley, in New-York, 184S. 



55. BLENHEIM PIPPIN. 

 Fruit large, tapering. Ground color yellowish, stained on the sunny side with a dull red 

 and intermixed with deeper stripes. Flesh yellowish, sweet, juicy and high flavored. 

 English dessert apple. 



