Plate VI. 
[Syn : Tom Potter .] 
The origin of this well-known apple, “Tom Putt” in Herefordshire and “Tom Potter” in 
Devonshire, has been lost. It is very generally cultivated in both counties. 
Description. —Fruit; about three inches wide and two and a quarter inches high ; roundish 
ovate, ribbed on the sides and terminated abruptly towards the eye in a narrow puckered apex. 
Skin ; smooth and shining, almost entirely covered with broken stripes and mottled blotches of deep 
bright crimson which becomes paler towards the shaded side, where the colour is lemon yellow. 
Eye ; set in a narrow puckered basin; segments connivent ; tube funnel-shaped; stamens median 
inclining to marginal. Stalk ; from a quarter to half an inch long, set in an uneven funnel-shaped 
cavity which is slightly russetty. Flesh; white, very tender, sweet and with a pleasant acidity. 
Cells of the core all quite open. 
An excellent culinary apple, juicy and high flavoured, when ripe it exudes a pleasant and 
powerful fragrance and has usually a beautiful colour. The tree is vigorous, and as “ Tom Putt” 
in Herefordshire is very prolific and an annual bearer, but as “Tom Potter” in Devonshire, Ronalds 
speaks of it as “uncertain in bearing.” In Herefordshire cottage gardens it is perhaps an equal 
favourite with the Blenheim Orange, and it certainly bears more regularly. It is in season from 
September till November. 
