PLATE XLVII. 
t. BENONI APPLE. 
This Apple is a native of the United States, where it is said by Downing to have originated 
on the farm of Mr. Mason Richards, at Dedham, in Massachusets, some 30 or 40 years ago 
(1830-40). It was introduced into England by Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth. 
Description .—Fruit : below medium size, oblato-cylindrical, even and regular in outline 
except at the crown, where it is somewhat undulating, and generally higher on one side than the 
other. Skin : when fully ripe, of a rich yellow colour, with a crimson cheek where exposed to the 
sun, and marked with short broken streaks of darker crimson, with here and there patches of thin 
russet, especially towards the apex. Eye : closed with flat segments, which overflap each other, 
and set in a rather deep and irregular cavity. Tube : long and funnel-shaped. Stamens : median. 
Stalk : very slender, from a quarter to half an inch long, and deeply inserted in a round cavity. 
Flesh : yellow, very tender and delicate in tissue, sweet and briskly flavoured, and with a remarkably 
high perfume like that of pine-apple, which is very characteristic of this Apple when highly ripened. 
Cells of the core closed. 
Downing, in his Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, pronounces this fruit to be “ Very good 
or best, a valuable variety for market or table use,” and Mr. Rivers confirms this favourable opinion. 
It ripens in September. 
The tree is hardy, forms excellent pyramids, and bears well. Mr. Rivers says, “ I have 
little pyramids covered with fruit, which bad as the season was last year (1879) ripened before this 
time (September 16th).” 
