Plate XI. 
8. PYM SQUARE. 
[Syn : Izard’s Kernel; Eggleton Redl\ 
This apple originated at Eastnor Farm, near Eastnor Castle. Mr. Henry Izard, some forty 
years ago (c. 1839), when staying there as a boy, planted three pips of an apple he was eating, in a 
flower pot. The seedlings were afterwards planted by Charles Bourne, the gardener, from Ledbury, 
in a waste corner of the garden. In due course they were grafted on young stocks. This plant 
grew very vigorously, and bore fruit the second year after grafting. The two others proved 
worthless. Bourne called it Izards Kernel\ but it afterwards got the name of Pym Square , under 
the mistaken idea that it was a Devonshire Apple introduced into Herefordshire. The origin of the 
name Pym Square is not known, but it is very peculiar, and since there does not seem to be any 
Devonshire apple of that name, it is retained here. 
Description. —Fruit, of medium size, round, inclining to oblate, even and regular in its 
outline. Skin, smooth and shining, entirely covered with bright crimson, which is rather paler on 
the shaded side, and slightly mottled with yellow where the ground colour is visible. Eye, small 
and closed, with flat segments, and surrounded with small bosses or knobs on the margin of the 
depression; tube, funnel-shaped; stamens, marginal. Stalk, sometimes a mere knob, on the 
rounded base of the fruit; at others, half an inch long, slender, and inserted in a deep narrow 
cavity. Flesh, yellowish, tinged with red under the skin, very tender and juicy, briskly and well 
flavoured. Cells of the core, open ; cell-walls, obovate. 
The tree is hardy, grows strong in the wood ; and crops well. The apples are brilliant in 
colour, and good in flavour, so that in scarce seasons they will sell to advantage as pot fruit. 
