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On the Love Apple. 



from eight to twelve on each raceme. In flavour the small 

 and the Pear-shaped sorts do not differ from the larger sort ; 

 but the Cherry variety is more acid when dressed, and it 

 would certainly be a preferable kind, did not its diminished 

 bulk make it impossible to grow large crops of it in a small 

 space. 



There are two varieties with yellow fruit. The first is the 

 Large Yellow Love Apple. I saw specimens of the fruit in 

 the last season, but did not observe the plant growing ; it is 

 not now much cultivated, and its seed was not amongst the 

 collection received from France in the last spring. It is men- 

 tioned both by Gerarde and Parkinson, and Besler, 

 in the Hortus Eystettensis* gives a figure of it, corresponding 

 in all points, except that of colour, with the figure of the large 

 Red Love Apple, in the same work. The Small, or Cherry 

 Yellow Love Apple, was raised from the seeds which came 

 from France, where it is called Tomate Petite Jaune ; its 

 fruit measures from three to four inches in circumference, is 

 of a pale yellow colour, from ten to twelve growing on each 

 raceme ; it is globular, but a little flattened at top and 

 bottom ; some shew a disposition to swell out into distinct 

 lobes, and become of a larger size ; from the seeds of such 

 fruit, if necessary, the large sort might be raised. When 

 dressed as a sauce, the flavour of the yellow kinds is so in- 

 ferior to that of any of the red ones, that they can never be 

 considered deserving of cultivation for use. The small Yellow 

 Love Apple is figured and described as a distinct species 

 by J A CQUiN,t under the name of Solanum Pseudo-ly coper- 



* Plantee autumnaJes, Ordo 1. folio 1. fig. 1. 



f See Hortus Vindobonensis, Vol. i. page 4, tab. 11. 



