PLATE XXV. 
1. DEVONSHIRE QUEEN. 
A beautiful apple, rather large, straw-coloured, enriched over three-fourths of its 
surface with bright red stripes. It is an excellent apple, juicy and high-flavoured, fit 
either for the table or for sauce, but particularly the latter. Ripe in October. It is 
a general favourite in the West of England. 
2. NOBLESSE DE GAND. 
A large sauce apple, straw-coloured, without stripes, nearly globular, but contracted 
towards the eye. It is a firm weighty fruit, rich in flavour, with a due proportion of 
acid. 
A very excellent new sort, in use January and February. 
3. BACKHOUSE’S LORD NELSON. 
From Messrs, T. and J. Backhouse’s Nursery at York.—It is a fine large kitchen 
apple, of a tall pyramidal shape, with slight protrusions on the sides; of a cream 
colour: the flesh is soft, and bakes well. This is a very useful apple in December and 
January. The tree is a strong grower, and has remarkably large and long leaves. 
Large crimson and white flowers. 
4. COWARNE’S QUEENING, 
(Called also Northern Greening.) A large oval-shaped apple, of a golden colour, 
with some unmixed red on the outward side. It is an excellent sauce apple, in use 
from November till January, The tree grows in an upright compact form, and is a 
free hearer. 
