Plate XIX. 
3. MARGARET. 
[Snn : Early Red Margaret; Early Margaret; Early Red Juneating; Red Juneating; 
Striped Juneating; Early Striped Juneating; Striped Quarrenden ; Summer Traveller ; Eve Apple 
in Ireland; Marget Apple ; Maudlin; Magdalene ; Marguerite; Lammas .] 
This is a very old English apple. It is without doubt the Margaret of Rea, Worlidge, Ray, 
and all our early pomologists. It is figured by Lindley, PI. 46. 
Description. —Fruit: middle sized ; roundish ovate, and narrowing towards the eye, when it 
is angular. Skin : greenish yellow on the shaded side, but bright red next the sun, striped all over 
with dark red, and strewed with grey russetty dots. Eye : half open and prominent, with long, 
broad, erect segments, surrounded with a number of puckered knobs. Stalk : short and thick, about 
half an inch long, inserted in a small and shallow cavity. Flesh : greenish white, brisk, juicy, and 
vinous, with a pleasant and very refreshing flavour. 
The Margaret is a first rate early dessert apple, with a fresh, juicy, vinous flavour. It is ripe 
in the beginning of August and should not be allowed to ripen on the tree or it will very quickly 
become mealy. 
The tree is small in size, and well adapted for growing dwarf either for potting, or for training 
as a pyramid, or espalier, when grafted on the paradise or pommeparadis stock. It bears freely and 
is very hardy, though somewhat liable to canker in light soils. 
