Plate VI. 
3. LORD SUFFIELD. 
This apple was raised about forty-five years ago, by Thomas Thorpe, a hand-loom weaver, of 
Boardman Lane, Middleton, near Manchester, on the Middleton Hall Estate of the late Lord 
Suffield, and the apple was named from his Lordship, who was a very popular, benevolent man. 
In 1836, Thorpe sold the buds at threepence each, and trees thus obtained are now living. 
Description. —Fruit; large, ovate, even in its outline, with several obtuse angles on its sides. 
Skin; thin, smooth, pale greenish yellow, with sometimes a tinge of red next the sun. Eye ; small, 
the segments being gathered together in a point, and placed in a plaited basin. Stalk; slender, 
over half an inch long, inserted in a deep cavity. Flesh ; white, tender and firm, very juicy and 
briskly flavoured. 
This apple has become the first favourite for early kitchen use, and in all modern gardens is 
rapidly displacing the early Codlins and the Hawthornden. Its fault is, that the skin is too fine and 
the flesh too tender to enable it to travel without being disfigured by bruises. It is in season in 
August and September. 
The tree is hardy and a great bearer, but does not grow to a large size. 
