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cember to ApriL This variety was raised in a vil- 

 lage near Norwich, and is one of the first-rate 

 kitchen apples of that county. The fruit is full 

 middle-size, egg-shaped, bright-red next the sun, 

 and dark-green on the other. The pulp is firm, and 

 full of acidulous juice. It makes a fine healthy 

 standard for the orchard, in which it raay take a 

 second-rate place. It is generally a good bearer, and 

 resists the American blight better than most others, 

 A good loam is its favourite soil. 



47. Hunt-House, — This keeps equally well with 

 the preceding. It was found at Whitby, in York- 

 shire (a cold, bleak place), and where it is exten- 

 sively planted, and is a hardy, useful apple. The 

 fruit is of small size, oval-shape ; in colour olive- 

 green, dashed with red on the side next the sun. 

 The pulp is firm, and charged with an agreeable acid 

 juice. The growth is not robust, the young shoots 

 being mostly pendulous and thickly set with bold 

 swollen buds. It is a tree of the third class in the 

 orchard, and will answer well in exposed situations 

 trained as dwarfs or half-standards, it being equal 

 in hardihood, and very fit to be planted along with 

 the grey Leadington. 



48. Hall Door. — This fruit is good from the end 

 of November till March, and has been long esteemed 

 in the counties of Kent and Surrey. The fruit is of 

 the middle size, rather elongated and irregular in 

 shape, having risings near the eye, which is hollow. 

 The stalk is short and thick, and adheres closely to 

 the branch. The colour is dull yellow, streaked 



