Plate XIV. 
2. SCARLET PEARMAIN. 
[Syn : Bells Scarlet Pearmain; Bells Scarlet; Hood's Seedling; Oxford Peach Apple ?\ 
This apple is said to have been introduced by Mr. Bell, land steward to the Duke of 
Northumberland, at Sion, about the year 1800. It is figured in Ronalds’ Pyrus Malus 
Brentfordiensis, plate viii, fig. 2. 
Description. —Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and two inches and a quarter 
high ; conical, regularly and handsomely shaped. Skin, smooth, tender and shining, of a rich deep 
bright crimson, with stripes of darker crimson on the side next the sun, and extending almost over 
the whole surface of the fruit, except where it is much shaded, and there it is yellow, washed, and 
striped with crimson, but of a paler colour, intermixed with a tinge of yellow, on the shaded side, 
and the whole surface sprinkled with numerous grey russety dots. Eye, open, with long reflexed 
segments, set in a round, even, and rather deep basin, which is marked with lines of russet. Stalk, 
from three quarters to an inch long, deeply inserted in a round, even, and funnel-shaped cavity, 
which is generally russety at the insertion of the stalk. Flesh, yellowish, with a tinge of red under 
the skin, tender, juicy, sugary, and vinous. 
A beautiful well-shaped dessert apple, of first-rate quality; in season from October to 
January. “Its good qualities are not exceeded by its great beauty” (Transactions of London 
Horticultural Society , vol. vii, p. 335). It has a delicious flavour when eaten ripe from the tree in 
September or October. The tree grows well but slenderly, and require a rich loamy soil, or it is 
apt to canker. It attains about a middle size, and bears well. It succeeds well on the paradise 
stock, on which it forms a good dwarf or espalier tree. 
