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narrowly wedge-shaped. Petals pale blush colour with a 

 darker tint where exposed to the light in their unexpanded 

 state ; horizontally incurved ; oval, with a very short claw ; 

 obtuse, finely nerved. Filaments 15 to 20, half as long as the 

 petals, quite smooth. Anthers orbiculate, emarginated both at 

 their base and top, splitting towards the stigmata. Styles often 

 apparently only four in number, but in this case two will 

 generally be found united into one ; and the young fruit has 

 the natural quinary number of cells, woolly, up to about as 

 high as the filament. Stigmata broader than the styles, 

 hemispherical, soon exsuding in abundance a viscid liquor, 

 to which the pollen adheres; this accounts for so many 

 blossoms setting. Fruit in perfection for eating, from 

 Christmas to the middle of March. Skin thick and always 

 of a green colour while on the tree, but tinged with copper- 

 coloured red, and several darker spots on the sunny side ; 

 after the fruit has been gathered some time, the green colour 

 changes to a yellowish cast. Its shape is oblong-ovate with the 

 base and top depressed. Size of larger specimens from 2£ 

 to 3 inches long, by about 2$ broad at the bottom. Eye small, 

 depressed, and closed by the dead leaves of the calyx now in- 

 curved ; and it is surrounded by some irregular ribs, the natu- 

 ral number of which is 5. These embossures of the French have 

 been observed by Mr. Hooker, who, I believe, knows Apples 

 better than any of us, in almost every young Apple. Flesh 

 not so firm as that of the Ribston Pippin, and of a charming 

 flavour mixed with a slight perfume; when quite ripe, of a 

 pale yellowish tint. Core longer than in many Apples, very 

 much striated, and in every specimen I have examined, truly 

 unilocular at the centre, its axis separating into five parts 

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