PLATE LXIX. 
5. DOWNTON NONPAREIL. 
One of the many seedlings of Mr. Thomas Andrew Knight, and named from the village of 
Downton, where, in all probability, it first fruited. 
Description .—Fruit : small, two inches and a quarter wide, and an inch and three quarters 
high, oblate, even and regular in its outline. Skin : greenish yellow, covered with patches of russet, 
especially over the crown and in the basin of the eye. Eye: small, with erect, convergent segments, 
set in a wide and shallow depression. Stalk : half an inch long, slender, and set in a shallow cavity. 
Flesh : yellowish, crisp, juicy, sweet, and briskly flavoured. 
A dessert apple of the first quality, in season from December to April. 
The tree is hardy, but not free in growth, and it has the thin wood and small foliage of its 
tribe. 
