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WHITE WINTER CALVILLE APPLE. 
WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 
E have in this one of the handsomest and best of Apples—one, moreover, 
which can be depended on as a valuable dessert fruit in the winter 
season, since it may be placed on the table in good condition from 
about Christmas until Easter. There is a peculiar delicacy in the 
tender melting flesh, and grateful aromatic lemon flavour, almost making one 
fancy while eating a fruit which has just arrived at a fit condition, that he is 
taking a lemon ice while sniffing the flowers of Magnolia grandifiora. 
This Apple is very successfully cultivated at Trentham, by Mr. Stevens. It 
is grown in pots, which are stood at intervals along the long ranges of peach- 
cases, which cover so large a proportion of the garden-wall at that place. They 
have, therefore, virtually orchard-house treatment, and well they repay all the 
advantages which are accorded to them, as the result is a supply of fruit such 
as that represented in our plate, which is drawn from a specimen kindly fur¬ 
nished for the purpose by Mr. Stevens. One of these pot-grown trees was 
produced a few weeks since at South Kensington, showing the crop it had 
matured last season, and as an example of successful management, was voted a 
Cultural Commendation. 
The fruit is of large size, with broad unequal ribs extending from base to 
apex, where they terminate in prominent ridges. The skin is of a pale delicate 
yellow hue, becoming when fully matured a bright golden yellow, strewed with 
brown dots. The eye is small and closed, with pointed segments, set in a deep- 
ribbed basin ; the stalk is three-quarters of an inch long, slender, inserted in a 
deep angular cavity lined with russet. The flesh is yellowish-white, very tender 
and delicate, full of juice, with a lively aromatic flavouring of lemons. It is not 
only an excellent dessert fruit, but is also adapted for all culinary purposes. 
This variety is much recommended as a cordon on the French Paradise stock, 
for which and for pot-culture it seems better adapted than to be grown as a 
standard tree.—T. Moore. 
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THE AURICULA. 
Chapter XII.—On the Eve op Bloom.—Treatment.- 
Exhibition. 
[RE there not circumstances, times, and seasons in which, though hopes 
and anticipations are not quite fulfilled, yet they are so in such large part 
as to make us feel well content ? In the near grasp of the whole, we are 
able to bear, nay, luxuriate in that very delay which is short enough and 
near enough to the pleasure to belong to it, and even make it seem all the 
greater. 
Is it not thus with the schoolboy when he has just started for the holidays, 
and the next station is Home ? Is it not thus with happy lovers (N.B.—These 
3rd series.—X. H 
