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PLATE XL. 
1. GRAVENSTEIN. 
(As described in the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, vol. iv. p. 523, with a 
figure.) It is of German, or perhaps of Italian origin : a large globular apple, a little 
contracted at the eye, which is seated in a rather deep and wide cavity, and encircled 
with several slightly projecting ribs ; straw-coloured, a little streaked with light red. 
This is a first-rate sauce apple, juicy, and highly flavoured; ripe in October and No¬ 
vember, and is both a free grower and a good bearer. 
•2. HOLLANDBURY. 
A very large and beautiful sauce apple ; tankard-shaped, with four or five slightly 
projecting ribs ; both eye and stalk rather deeply seated in a narrow cavity : it is of 
a straw colour, three-fourths covered with unmixed crimson. The fruit has a very 
elegant appearance on the tree for some time before gathering, but liable, from its 
weight, to be blown down in tempestuous weather. The tree is diffuse in its growth, 
and the leaves unusually small for a large sort; it is a good bearer, and in use from 
October till Christmas. 
