PLATE XLIX. 
5. SEEK NO FURTHER. 
A well known old English variety, whose origin and history are lost. It abounds in the 
orchards and cottage gardens of Herefordshire, where many very old trees are to be found, and 
where it has long been a very favorite apple. 
This fruit is represented by Ronalds, Plate xxiii., fig. 3, and by Lindley, Plate 117, under 
the name of King of Pippins. 
Description .—Fruit : medium sized, conical or pearmain shaped. Skin : yellowish green, 
streaked with broken patches of crimson on the shaded side, and strewed with grey russety dots, but 
covered with a light red, which is marked with crimson streaks, and covered with patches of fine 
delicate russet, and numerous, large, square, and stelloid russety specks, like scales on the side 
exposed to the sun. Eye : small and closed, with broad flat segments, the edges of which fit neatly 
to each other, set in a rather deep and plaited basin. Stalk : about half an inch long, stout., and 
inserted in a deep, round, and regular cavity. Flesh : greenish yellow, crisp, juicy, rich, sugary and 
vinous, charged with a pleasant aromatic flavour. 
This apple acquires a very beautiful colour when in season, which lasts from November to 
January or even February. It forms a very attractive dish on the table, and is an excellent dessert 
apple. This apple is very distinct from the King of the Pippins , or Golden Winter Pearmain. 
It is more pearmain shaped, more bossed round the eye, has a different flavour, firmer substance, 
and keeps much longer. 
The tree is hardy, and bears freely as an orchard standard, as it is usually grown. 
