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PLATE XXXL 
1. D’ASTEMS, OR STRIPLING D’HIVER. 
A noble kitchen fruit, large, and of a globular shape; a little flattened at the eye, 
which is deeply sunk and large; green with some dull red streaks, chiefly on the 
top of the fruit. It is a first-rate sort, firm, with rich flavour, and dresses well; will 
keep till March or April. 
2. BLENHEIM ORANGE. 
A large, noble sauce apple, very generally esteemed; its form is ovate and uniform; 
colour when ripe, orange with some lively red on the sun side; it has a rich flavour, 
and bakes well: in use November, December, and January. The tree grows very 
strong and bears well, but not till after it has been a few years planted. 
3. BRmANT BELLE FLEUR. 
Received by the Horticultural Society, under the name of Iron Apple, from Mr. Booth 
of Hamburgh,—probably so called from the solidity and weight of its fruit. It is very 
large and handsome, rather conical in shape, slightly ribbed, yellow-coloured, with 
red stripes. This is a capital sauce apple, juicy, and of very pleasant flavour ; in use 
from December till April. 
4. WHITE WINTER CALVILLE. 
Of a pyramidal form, with strong ribs, above the middle size; the eye and stalk 
hollow and contracted; colour pea-green tinged with unstriped red. A French sauce 
apple, juicy, with plenty of acid: in season November, December, and January. It 
grows naturally robust, but is rather subject to canker if not on a good deep soil. 
