454 Descriptions of some Varieties of Irish Apples. 



eye broad and shallow ; colour, bright yellow speckled with 

 dots and lightly tinged with red to the sun ; flesh yellow, 

 firm, crisp, and well flavoured. In eating from the middle of 

 September to the end of October. Tree broom-headed; 

 young shoots erect, of a greenish brown, full of spurs, downy 

 at the extremities ; leaves ovate, acuminate, finely serrated. 

 A healthy and good bearer. 



White Russet. Fruit large, about two inches and three 

 quarters from the eye to the stalk, and three inches in its 

 transverse diameter near the stalk ; sides angular ; colour a 

 yellowish green, intermixed with white, marked with light 

 red to the sun, and russetted from it; stalk short, eye 

 wrinkled ; richly flavoured, but apt to grow mealy when too 

 ripe. In use during October and November. Tree round- 

 headed; shoots erect, strong and thin, of a light russet co- 

 lour ; leaves acutely ovate, pale green ; footstalks about an 

 inch and half long. Healthy on strong soils, but rather a thin 

 bearer. 



Sam Young. Fruit small, flattish, about an inch and half 

 from the eye to the stalk, and two inches in its transverse 

 diameter ; eye remarkably large, having some of the calyx 

 attached to it ; colour yellowish clouded with russet, reddish 

 to the sun ; very apt to crack ; flesh yellowish, firm, crisp, 

 sweet and well flavoured. In use from the beginning of No- 

 vember to January, Tree flat headed, shoots declining, of a 

 light brown colour ; leaves sub-rotund, acuminate, coarsely 

 serrated, upper surface shining, under slightly pubescent. 

 An abundant bearer, and healthy on all soils. 



Ross Nonpareil. Fruit middle sized, two inches and a 

 half from the eye to the stalk, and about two inches and a half 



