ashmead’s kernel. 
countries, other influences, connected with fruit, are observable, 
for France lias her wines, the inferior sorts of which form the 
common beverage of her inhabitants. In England the climate 
being unsuitable to the growth of Grapes, the Apple and Pear 
are made to afford the agricultural population of certain dis- 
tricts their usual beverage, cider and perry. 
The Apple which we now publish is truly English, the origi- 
nal or parent tree, as we are informed by Mr. J. C. Wheeler, 
of Kingsholm Nursery, Gloucester, having grown in a garden, 
close to that city, formerly belonging to Dr. Ashmead, whose 
name it bears. The tree, however, lately yielded to the law of 
necessity, that its site might be occupied by new buildings, now 
forming “Clarence Street.” It is one amongst the most supe- 
rior of dessert Apples, both as respects its quality, and its 
duration ; it also possesses much beauty, as a russety fruit, being 
of handsome, regular, form, and its skin, beneath the russet, 
being bright yellow. 
Its eye is small and connivent, in a shallow, regular, basin. 
Stem short, deeply sunk in a narrow cavity. Skin yellow, 
mingling in tint with its partial coating of thin russet, whereby 
the whole surface assumes one almost uniform tint of golden 
russety colour. Flesh white, smooth to the palate, crisp, juicy, 
and sweet, with a rich aromatic flavour, somewhat allied to 
the Nonpareil, but sweeter. 
Our drawing was made in March, and at that time the fruit 
was in high perfection. The tree is of free growth, both as a 
standard and dwarf, not subject to canker, a free bearer, and 
having the habit of the Nonpareil. 
Mr. J. C. Wheeler, of Kingsholm Nursery, from whom we 
received this excellent and almost unknown variety of Apple, 
has taken much care in the propagation of trees, from that of 
Dr. Ashmead above-mentioned. It is the more necessary to 
mention this on account of the name having been given, either 
negligently, or from more indefensible motives, to an inferior 
Apple, of somewhat similar appearance. 
