Plate XX. 
[Syn : Loddington Seedling; Stone's Apple; KillicSs Applet 
This apple takes its name from the Village of Loddington, near Maidstone. The original 
tree grows on the farm of Mr. Stone, at Loddington. It is stated to have been brought from a 
nursery garden at Bath about 60 years since by a niece of Mr. Robert Stone, who had accompanied 
her uncle there. Mr. Stone soon saw its great merit, and gave grafts to his neighbours. It thus 
got the name of Stone’s Apple, and spread through the orchards of the adjoining villages. In 1877 
it was exhibited by Mr. Lewis A. Killick, of Langley, before the Fruit Committee of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, and was awarded a first-class certificate. Its cultivation is now becoming 
more and more extended through the country. It is figured in the “ Florist and Pomologist,” 
Plate 467, as Stones Apple. 
Description. —Fruit : large, varying from three to three and three-quarter inches in diameter, 
roundish, slightly flattened, and narrowing abruptly towards the eye ; it has obtuse ribs on the sides, 
which become more distinct towards the eye, where they form ridges round the crown. Skin : 
smooth and shining, grass-green at first, with a brownish red cheek ; but after being gathered it 
becomes a fine lemon yellow, with a pale crimson cheek, marked with broken streaks of dark 
crimson ; the surface is strewed more or less with minute russet spots. Eye : closed, with 
convergent leaf-like segments, set in a deep and prominently plaited or ribbed basin. Stalk : half 
an inch to three-quarters long, slender for the size of the fruit, and inserted in a deep, wide, funnel- 
shaped cavity, which is lined with pale, thin, ashy russet extending over the base of the fruit. 
Flesh : very tender, with a pleasant subacid flavour. 
Loddington is an early culinary apple, of great excellence, and a good market variety. It 
comes into use in September after the early Codlins, Lord Suffield, and Yorkshire Beauty, and will 
keep till Christmas. It is not so tender in the skin as Lord Suffield, and does not bruise so readily 
in travelling. The habit of the tree is compact and medium sized. It bears freely every year, and 
when in bearing, keeps on forming an abundance of fruit spurs without making much wood : for 
these reasons it answers well to graft on the branches of large trees of unproductive kinds. 
