Plate III. 
6. WORCESTER PEARMAIN. 
This very handsome early apple was produced in the St. John’s Nurseries, Worcester, in 
1 873, by Mr. Richard Smith ; and received a first-class certificate from the London Horticultural 
Society in 1874. It has been supposed to be a seedling from the Devonshire Ouarrenden, but this 
is not known with certainty. 
Description. —Fruit; medium sized, two inches and three-quarters wide, and the same in 
height; conical even, and very slightly angular towards the crown, where it is narrow. Skin ; very 
smooth and completely covered with a brilliant red, dotted with minute fawn-coloured dots; here 
and there in some of the specimens, the yellow ground shows faintly through the red. Eye ; small, 
closed with long segments, forming a cone, set on the apex of the fruit, with a few plaits round it. 
Stalk ; three quarters of an inch long, deeply inserted in a russety cavity. Flesh ; very tender, 
crisp, juicy, sweet and sprightly, with a very pleasant flavour. 
The great beauty of the fruit, and its usefulness, both for dessert and culinary purposes, 
cannot fail to render it a general favourite. It is ripe in August and September. 
The tree is hardy, begins to bear at a very early age, and is very productive. When well 
trained, on the paradise stock, and laden with its bright red fruit, which has a peculiar rosy tint, it 
forms a very beautiful object. 
