PLATE LXXIV. 
8. WINTER QUEENING. 
[Syn : Quoining; Winter Quoining; Dutch Queeningl\ 
This is a very old English apple. Dr. Hogg adopts the name of Quoining, believing the 
name to be derived from the word “ Coin,” or “ Quoin,” the corner stones of a building, because of 
the angles, or corners on the sides of the fruit. John Rea in his “ Pomona” says, when speaking 
of this apple, “ it succeeds incomparably on the paradise apple, as the colviele (Calville) and all 
other sorts of Oueenings do,’ regarding the Calmlle also as a Queening , from the angularity of its 
shape. 
Description. —Fruit : medium sized, two inches and a quarter wide, and rather more than 
two inches and a half high ; conical, distinctly five sided, with five acute angles, extending the whole 
length of the fruit, and terminating at the crown in four equal prominent knobs. Skin : pale green, 
almost entirely covered with red, which is striped and mottled with deeper red, and marked on the 
shaded side with a thin coat of russet. Eye : small and closed, set in a narrow and angular cavity. 
Stalk : about half an inch long, and slender, deeply inserted in a narrow and angular cavity. Flesh: 
greenish yellow, tender, soft, not very juicy, but sugary, rich, and perfumed. 
A good old apple, suitable either for dessert or culinary purposes. It is in season from 
November to May. It is a good market gardener’s apple, and packs well for long carriage. 
“ In the 17th century the old Quining ” says Mr. Thomas Andrew Knight, “ was highly 
estimated as a cider apple.” The density of the expressed juice, was found to be 1*073. 
The tree grows very large, is hardy, and bears well, but it is not much propagated now, and 
most of the existing trees are very aged. 
