Varieties of Fruit. 



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Mr. Richard Williams, sent from his garden at Turn- 

 ham Green, specimens of an Apple called the Wellington, a 

 very handsome and long keeping variety. It is rather above 

 the middle size, round, flattened at both ends. Eye large 

 and open, rather deeply sunk ; stalk very short, skin clear 

 yellow, with a blush of bright red where exposed ; the whole 

 surface thinly sprinkled with small brown spots. Flesh 

 yellow, crisp, with a brisk acid juice. It is an excellent sort 

 for culinary purposes. This Apple affords another instance of 

 the impropriety of giving new names to fruits already named. 

 It was raised some years ago by a Mr. Dumelow, a farmer 

 near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and is now well know in Leicester- 

 shire, Derbyshire, and Nottinghamshire, under the name of 

 Dumelow's Crab. Mr. Williams received it from Gopsal 

 Hall, which is in the neighbourhood of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, 

 under the name of the Wellington, and under this name it is 

 now becoming common in the nurseries round London. 

 There can be no doubt as to the propriety of restoring its ori- 

 ginal name, by which it is so extensively known in the neigh- 

 bourhood where it was first produced. 



Mr. John Slade, gardener to the Earl of Egremont, at 

 Pelworth, exhibited specimens of the Royal Reinette, an 

 Apple grown in the western parts of Sussex. It is a little more 

 conical than the Golden Reinette. The eye is large, and open, 

 in an even but small cavity ; stalk very short, with the flesh 

 growing pretty close round it; skin delicate yellow, with 

 stripes and staining of brilliant red on the exposed side, 

 sprinkled with a few small spots, which appear dark on the 

 yellow part, but gray on the red ; the whole surface highly 

 polished and shining. This is an Apple of unusual beauty, 



