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PLATE XXL 
1. RUSSET TABLE PEARMAIN. 
A dessert apple a little larger than the Golden Pippin, oblong, hut rather inclined to 
be conical; when ripe, straw-coloured with a red flush mixed with russet on the 
exposed side. It is a remarkably pretty apple, very firm, the flavour rich and juicy ; 
keeps till March or April. Bears well, but is of rather slender growth, and requires 
a rich loamy soil, which it well deserves. 
Blossoms white. 
2. LAMB ABBEY PEARMAIN. 
A smallish apple, of oblong shape, green, with some copper colour round the eye. 
A very firm and sweet apple. It is an excellent dessert sort, and will keep till May 
or June. 
3. PARRY’S PEARMAIN. 
A smallish oval dessert apple, presented to me by the late Roger Wilbraham, Esq. of 
worthy memory. It is of a pea-green colour, variegated with red stripes and white 
spots; has generally a small protuberance at the stalk: the flesh is uncommonly 
firm, rich, and sweet: it will keep till March or April, and does not shrivel. The 
tree is of slender growth, but bears well. 
Blossoms pink and white. 
4. BARCELONA PEARMAIN. 
Of an oval shape, rather less than the medium size, with a protuberance at the stalk; 
straw-coloured, three-fourths covered with full red, and curiously mottled with white 
spots. It is a pleasant dessert apple, in use from November till January, but rather a 
weak grower. 
