EXPLANATORY LIST OF SORTS. 51 



(60.) — Loan's Pearmain, is an excellent sauce 

 apple, is a good bearer, and will keep. 



APPLES FOR DESSERT OR CULINARY PURPOSES. 



Par. 61. — Hawthorne D^an; this apple, for 

 the beauty of its bloom, the beauty of its fruit, 

 its fine flavour when in season, together with 

 its wonderful bearing, surpasses every apple now 

 in cultivation : if the trees stand where they can 

 have the benefit of the sun, the fruit will look 

 as handsome as a beautiful peach ; it is hand- 

 somely formed, of a whitish yellow ground, and 

 a brilliant pink next the sun ; they are very full 

 of juice, and the flavour universally admired 

 while in season; it is generally in perfection 

 through the month of September, although they 

 are used much earlier, and till the end of Octo- 

 ber. If this apple would keep, there would not 

 be such an apple in cultivation, for many of them 

 grow large for kitchen purposes, while the small 

 ones produce a beautiful and delicious fruit for 

 the dessert, and it is thought by many it would • 

 make fine cider : but to have this fruit hand- 

 some it is absolutely necessary to plant the trees 



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