PLATE LXXI. 
i. QUEEN OF SAUCE. 
This apple is occasionally found in the Herefordshire orchards, and is always exhibited at 
the Hereford Apple Shows. Its origin and history could not be found. 
Description .—Fruit : large, three inches and a quarter broad, and two inches and a half 
high, obtuse, ovate, broad and flat at the base, narrowing towards the crown, and angular on the 
sides. Skin : greenish yellow on the shaded side, but on the side exposed to the sun it is flushed 
with red, which is marked with broken streaks of deeper red. It is strewed all over with patches 
of thin delicate russet, aud large russety specks, those round the eye being linear. Eye : open, set 
in a deep and angular basin, which is russety at the base. Stalk : about a quarter of an inch long, 
deeply inserted in a round cavity, which is lined with coarse russet. Flesh : yellowish, firm, crisp, 
juicy, and sugary, with a brisk and pleasant flavour. 
A culinary apple of the best quality, in season from November to January. It is suitable 
also for the dessert in December and January. 
The tree is hardy and bears well. It should be grown as an orchard tree on the crab stock, 
when it will prove more productive than when its growth is more limited. 
