PLATE LIV. 
9. WANSTALL. 
This excellent apple was raised at Green Street, near Sittingbourne, in Kent, by a tailor of 
the name of Wanstall, about the beginning of the present century (c. 1800). 
Description. —Fruit: medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and two inches and a quarter 
high ; roundish, but narrowing a little towards the eye, with five prominent angles on the sides, 
which terminate in ridges round the apex, thus rendering the shape distinctly five sided. Skin : 
deep golden yellow on the shaded size, but red, which is striped and mottled with darker red, on the 
side next the sun ; marked with patches and veins of thin grey russet, and strewed all over with 
russety dots. Eye : half open, with broad, flat segments, set in an angular and plaited basin. Stalk : 
half an inch long, deeply inserted in a round cavity. Flesh : yellow, firm, crisp, juicy, rich, sugary, 
and highly flavoured. 
A dessert apple of the very first quality, equal in flavour to the Ribston Pippin ; it will 
keep until May or June. 
The tree is hardy and bears well. 
