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APPLE. 



firm, white, and full of well-flavoured juice ; pass- 

 able as a dessert apple, but chiefly used in the 

 kitchen. In the orchard it makes a capital standard 

 of the first class ; and, after a few years, becomes 

 a good bearer. If grafted on the paradise stock, it 

 does w^ell as a dwarf ; but tlie fruit do not keep so 

 long as when grafted on the crab. It is also ob- 

 servable, that this variety is not so subject to the 

 American blight as some other of those already de- 

 scribed. 



41. Golden Knob. — This apple is usable from 

 December to the end of February. It is under the 

 middle size, but possesses some good qualities. The 

 fruit is round, having a dark-yellow russet hue next 

 the sun. The flesh very firm, and with a fair portion 

 of pleasant acid juice. The tree is healthy and vi- 

 gorous, well adapted for the orchard of a market 

 fruit-grower, being a great bearer : as many as sixty 

 bushels, exclusive of windfalls, being sometimes 

 yielded by a middle-sized tree. Four trees of this 

 sort, now growing at Woking in Surrey, produced, 

 in the year 1831, above four hundred bushels! As 

 abundant crops are often borne in Kent, ^vhere the 

 tree is common, and not upon the richest land, but 

 on thin soils having a dry substratum of chalk or 

 limestone ; a situation where many other kinds of 

 apples are seen to prosper. 



42, PoDune Vermilion, — This is a beautiful apple, 

 ripe in December and January, and was received 

 from France in the collection of Sir P. Stephens, 

 The fruit is small and egg-shaped ; the colour a 



