PLATE LXI. 
i. WELFORD PARK NONESUCH. 
This variety was raised by Mr. Charles Ross, gardener, at Welford Park, near Newbury. 
It was produced from a pip of Golden Hervey, which it was supposed had been fertilized by Lamb 
Abbey Pearmain, since the fruit from which the seed was taken, grew on a tree, half Golden Harvey , 
and half Lamb Abbey Pearmain. The seed was sown in 1864, and in 1865 grafts were put on a 
Blenheim Pippin tree, which fruited for the first time in 1871. It was awarded a first-class certificate 
by the Royal Horticultural Society, on November 7th, 1872. 
Description. —Fruit: large and handsome, three inches and a quarter wide, and two inches 
and a half high ; roundish and oblate, even and regular in its outline. Skin : fine lemon yellow on 
the shaded side, and on the side next the sun it is quite overspread with bright crimson, mottled 
and streaked with darker crimson, the colour gradually becoming paler as it extends to the shaded 
side. Eye : open, with short rudimentary segments, set in a saucer-like basin. Stalk : an inch or 
more long, slender, and deeply inserted in a wide cavity. Flesh : white, very tender, as much so as 
that of an American Newtown Pippin ; with an excellent flavour and fine aroma. 
A fine showy apple for culinary or dessert use, during October and November. 
The tree is hardy and bears well. 
