THE APPLE. 



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Pearson's plate. — Colour yellowish green and 

 red ; form oblate ; size under medium ; quality 

 first-rate. In use from November till April. 

 Tree hardy. A very handsome and excellent des- 

 sert apple, less cultivated than it deserves. 



Pennington's seedling. — Colour green, chang- 

 ing to yellowish green, with many large russety 

 spots on the shaded side ; rough brownish russet, 

 with a slight tinge of brown on the side exposed 

 to the sun ; size medium ; form oblato-ovate. 

 In use from November to March; quality a des- 

 sert apple of the highest order. 



Pine-apple russet. — Colour greenish yellow, 

 with numerous white specks on one part, and 

 rough thick yellowish russet on the other; form 

 roundish ovate, with obtuse angles ; size me- 

 dium. In use during September and October ; 

 quality excellent, and abounding in juice more 

 than most others. Tree hardy, and a good 

 bearer. Synonym — Hardinghams russet. 



Pomme grise. — Colour green in the shade, 

 covered with thick scaly russet, deep orange on 

 the side next the sun; form roundish ; size 

 small. In use from October to Februaiy ; qua- 

 lity first-rate. Of Canadian origin, but has been 

 long introduced into England. Tree rather a 

 slender grower, but an abundant bearer. Syno- 

 nym — Grey apple. 



Ravelston pippin. — Colour greenish yellow, 

 nearly covered with red streaks, and strewed 

 with russety dots; form roundish, somewhat 

 irregular, in consequence of the prominent ob- 

 tuse ribs ; size medium. In use during August. 

 Quality in Scotland deemed excellent as a des- 

 sert fruit, and is so much prized as to be in 

 general grown against a wall. In the better 

 climate of England, and in competition with so 

 many superior fruits, it sinks into a second or 

 third rate scale. It is, however, a valuable table 

 apple for the colder parts of Scotland, where 

 the finer kinds will not succeed. 



Reinette, Franche. — Colour greenish yellow, 

 changing as it ripens to pale yellow, always 

 tinged with carmine red when fully exposed to 

 the sun ; form roundish oblate, slightly angular 

 on the sides ; size above medium ; in use from 

 November to April ; quality first-rate. Tree a 

 free grower and an abundant bearer; requires a 

 dry light soil and warm situation. A very old 

 French variety, and there esteemed as much 

 over most other varieties as the Ribston or 

 golden pippin is with us. Synonym — French 

 reinette. 



Reinette, golden. — Colour red and yellow; 

 form oblate ; size medium ; quality first-rate. In 

 use from October till January. Tree hardy, 

 and an excellent bearer, requiring a light and 

 warm soil ; fruit also handsome, and of great 

 excellence. This variety is much prized on 

 the Continent, and flourishes under the fol- 

 lowing synonyms in Britain — Wyker pippin, 

 Kirk's golden reinette, Dundee, Yellow German 

 reinette, Megginch favourite. 



Reinette grise.— Colour yellow russet; form ob- 

 late; size medium; quality first-rate. In use 

 from November till March ; of French origin ; 

 hardy, and a good bearer. 



Ribston pippin. — Colour greenish yellow and 

 red; form roundish; size medium; quality first- 

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rate. In use from November till March ; ori- 

 ginated at Ribston Hall, Yorkshire. Tree hardy; 

 good bearer ; requires a good, rich, deep soil: in 

 light poor soils it is apt to canker, and the fruit 

 to become spotted. Its excellence claims for it a 

 place in every garden. Synonyms — Glory of 

 York, Travers's apple, Formosa pippin. 



Russet, Powell's. — Colour pale-brown russet 

 upon a greenish-yellow ground, which is rarely 

 visible unless shaded closely by a leaf, tinged 

 with brown on the sunny side ; form roundish, 

 flattened somewhat at the base ; size small. In 

 use from November to February ; quality first- 

 rate. Tree slender, but an abundant bearer, 

 ripening as a standard in the Dalkeith gardens. 



Russet, Boston. — Colour russet ; form roundish; 

 size medium ; quality first-rate. In use from 

 December till April. This excellent apple is of 

 American origin, a native of Massachusetts, and 

 is one of the most popular market fruits of the 

 country. It is a prodigious bearer, and in every 

 way highly deserving extensive cultivation. 

 Synonyms — Boxbury russet, Shippen's russet of 

 some. It succeeds well in Britain, and deserves 

 to be more generally known. 



Russet, keeping. — Colour pale yellowish-brown 

 russet, with a bright fiery red cheek on the side 

 most exposed to the sun; form roundish ; size me- 

 dium. In use from October to January, or even 

 March ; quality of the highest rank. This is 

 another excellent apple brought into notice by 

 Mr Hogg, who remarks, in " British Pomology/' 

 " that it is an apple which is very little known, 

 and does not seem at all to be in general culti- 

 vation." 



Russet, rosemary. — Colour yellow, tinged with 

 green on the shaded side, pale red on the side 

 exposed to the sun, slightly covered with pale- 

 brown russet ; form ovate ; size below medium. 

 In use from December to February; quality of 

 the very first class. 



Russet, Syke House. — Colour russet; form ob- 

 late ; size under medium ; quality first-rate. In 

 use from November till March. Tree slender 

 grower, a free bearer, and in every way deserv- 

 ing extensive cultivation. It ripens well on 

 dwarf standards at Dalkeith. 



Sam Young. — Colour russet ; form oblate; size 

 under medium ; quality first-rate. In use from 

 November till March. Originated at Kilkenny 

 in Ireland, hence the synonym Irish russet. Well 

 adapted to the climate of most of Scotland. 



Straat. — Colour greenish yellow ; form round- 

 ish ; size medium ; quality excellent. In use 

 from November till May. This fine apple some- 

 what resembles the Newtown pippin, but is apt 

 to canker in cold situations. Synonym — Straat 

 of Floy and Kenrick, American pomologists. 

 An apple in high esteem among the Dutch set- 

 tlers in Albany, where the original tree grew in 

 a street (stroat, Dutch), and hence the name. 



Thorle, summer— Colour pale yellow on one 

 side, bright red on the other ; form oblate ; size 

 rather under medium ; quality first-rate, the flesh 

 being very white and delicate. In use during 

 August and September. This excellent hardy 

 fruit succeeds well in most ordinary situations 

 as a standard ; is improved when grown as an 

 espalier, with a southern exposure; one tree may 



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