APPLE. 



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4. Calville cVEte, — The summer Calville ripens in 

 the beginning of August. The fruit is of the middle 

 size, rather oval, and irregularly shaped. The colour 

 is light-yellow, tinged with faint-red next the sun. 

 The flesh is crisp, and the juice tart but pleasant. 

 It is a most prolific and early bearer, often yielding 

 fruit in the third year from the graft. The wood is 

 slender, and consequently better adapted for dwarfs 

 or espaliers than for standards. But its merit of 

 earliness and fertility gains for it a place in every 

 fruit-garden. 



The above apple, with several other sorts which 

 will be noticed hereafter, w^ere imported from France 

 per order of Sir P. Stephens, of Fulham, where they 

 were planted, and leave given to the author to in- 

 spect them from time to time, and report as to their 

 merits. Some few of them had been in this country 

 before, many of them totally worthless ; but such 

 as vvere really good were added to the collection in 

 the Fulham Nursery, and will be noticed in the 

 sequel. All the sorts denominated Calville have a 

 ribbed exterior, by which they are easily recog- 

 nized. 



5. Summer Mar i/g old. — Ripens in the end of Au- 

 gust. It is a handsome fruit, and a great favourite 

 in the west of England, particularly in South Devon. 

 Rather larger than the golden pippin, it is of a fine 

 light red, w^th deeper streaks of the same colour of 

 the sun side. The flesh is breaking, and the juice 

 pleasant and abundant. It is a prolific bearer, and 



