PLATE XXXIX. 
This Apple was raised twenty-two years ago (1858), with three others growing beside it, 
from the pips of an apple purchased in the market. It first bore fruit about the time of the famous 
1 ichbourne trial (1874), and was originally called “ The Claimant .” It was introduced to Messrs. 
Saltmarsh & Sons, Chelmsford, who were awarded a First Class Certificate for it by the Fruit 
Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, on November 16, 1880. 
Description .—FYuit : medium sized ; oblate, even and regular in its outline, and ribbed round 
the eye. Skin : clear lemon colour, almost entirely covered with bright crimson, which is again 
marked with broken streaks and patches of dark crimson, and with a lining of russet in the 
stalk cavity. Eye : half open, with long erect slightly divergent segments, set in a deep and 
ribbed basin ; tube short and conical; stamens median. Stalk : nearly three-quarters of an 
inch long, deeply inserted in a wide and deep cavity lined with russet. Flesh : white, tender, 
very juicy and sweet; with a mild and pleasant acidity. Cells of the core open. It is very fragrant 
when fully ripe. 
An excellent culinary apple, in season from October to December. It is a very handsome 
apple; larger, a better keeper, and more productive than Cox’s Pomona. Some authorities, 
however, consider it differs but slightly from Cox s Pomona. 
The tree grows freely as a standard, is very hardy and bears abundantly. 
