PLATE LXI. 
8. PEASGOOD’S NONESUCH. 
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This very handsome apple was raised by Mr. Peasgood, of Stamford, from a pip sown in a 
garden pot by his wife, when a child. It was first presented before the Fruit Committee of the 
Royal Horticultural Society on September 18th, 1878, when it was awarded a first class certificate. 
It also gained a similar distinction at the Crystal Palace Show in September, 1874. A coloured 
illustration of this variety appears in the “ Florist and Pomologist ” for 1876. 
Description .—Fruit : like a very large Nonesuch , and not unlike the Blenheim Pippin when 
well grown. It is large, three inches and a half wide, and three inches high, roundish, somewhat 
oblate, and very handsome. Skin : yellow, overspread on the sunny side with red, and copiously 
streaked with bright, darker crimson streaks. Eye : very large and open, set in a deep, round and 
even basin, and with a short, stunted calyx. Stalk : short, deeply inserted. Flesh : yellowish, 
tender, very juicy, with an agreeable acid flavour. 
A very handsome highly coloured apple, whose beauty gives it a place on the dessert table, 
though its best virtues are culinary. 
The tree grows freely, but is said not to bear well, until it has attained its full growth. 
