KEEPI^ra APPLES. 



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CHAPTEE XVI. 



KEEPIiN'a APPLES. 



We next come to the apples whicli have more lengthened 

 keeping properties, on which we depend for a supply of 

 the most useful of all fruits until the time when we 

 may begin to look for the return of fruit again. 



The Grolden Eusset is a middle-sized apple, regular 

 in outline, without angles, a little flattened at the ends, 

 of a yellow-russet colour, rather rough and thick in 

 the skin, and sometimes ruddy on the sunny side. The 

 ilesh is pale yellow, firm, crisp, sweet, with an aromatic, 

 rather musky taste, and not very juicy. The eye is 

 rather small, close, a little depressed, with irregular 

 plaits round ; and the stalk is very short, and is deeply 

 inserted in an uneven, narrow cavity, not projecting so 

 far as the base of the apple. It is a good-looking and 

 nice-flavoured dessert apple from December to April, 

 and is also excellent for cooking. The trees have a thin 

 and rather drooping growth : they are hardy, and often 

 bear well in bleak situations. 



The Pine-Apple Eusset, or Eeinette Anana, is a 

 middle-sized apple of a bright golden russet, regular in 

 form, with the russet flavour heightened with plentiful, 

 rich, high-flavoured juice, having something of the 

 flavour of the pine apple. This, too, is good for either 

 eating or cooking. 



The Blenheim Orange, Woodstock Pippin, or Blenheim 

 Pippin, is at once one of the handsomest, largest, and 

 most useful apples we have. It is a large, roundish 

 apple, rather widest at the base, of a bright orange 

 colour when ripe, with a glowing rosy cheek. The 

 flesh is yellow, breaking very juicy, sweet, and with a 

 delicious high flavour. The eye is hollow and open, in 

 a slightly angular cavity. It is one of the largest 



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