Plate XXIII. 
full grown, so that I have no doubt it must be over 50 years old, even if a graft had been 
introduced into the Old Quarrenden tree. We have grafted trees of it many years since, and it is 
now grown largely in the neighbourhood of Maidstone as The Weavering , or Killick's Apple . 
Most growers that now have planted Warner s King are discovering their identity.” 
Description .—Fruit: very large, four inches wide, and three inches and a half high ; ovate. 
Skin : of an uniform clear deep yellow, strewed with russety dots and patches of pale brown russet. 
Eye : small and closed, with long accuminate segments, and set in a narrow, deep, and slightly 
angular basin. Stalk : half an inch long, deeply inserted in a round, funnel-shaped cavity, which is 
lined with thin yellowish brown russet. Flesh : white, tender, crisp, and juicy, with a fine brisk 
and subacid flavour. 
A fine, handsome, culinary apple, of first-rate quality. It is in season from November to 
March. This is now perhaps the most favourite culinary apple in cultivation, and usually takes 
the first place in its class at all fruit exhibitions. 
The tree is very hardy, a good bearer, and not subject to disease. “It grows vigorously, and 
has a very upright mode of growth, and therefore in overcrowded orchards,” says Mr. Killick, 
“ instead of grubbing up the superfluous trees graft them with this variety, and in a few years the 
others would probably then receive the same fate.” It succeeds admirably as an espalier, and 
should find a place in every garden of choice fruit. 
