. British pomology; or, The history, description, classification, and synonymes, of the fruits and fruit trees of Great Britain ... Apples. THE APPLE. ITS VARIETIES. 67 open, set in a plaited basin. Stalk, rather deeply inserted in a round cavity, from which issue ramifications of russet. Flesh, yellow, crisp, very juicy, brisk, sugary, and perfumed. A very excellent apple ; of first-rate quality as a culinary fruit, and suitable also for the dessert. It is in use from October to February. The tree is quite hardy, and an excellent bearer. 92. DEVONSHIRE QUARRENDEN.—Hort. Identification.—Fors.
. British pomology; or, The history, description, classification, and synonymes, of the fruits and fruit trees of Great Britain ... Apples. THE APPLE. ITS VARIETIES. 67 open, set in a plaited basin. Stalk, rather deeply inserted in a round cavity, from which issue ramifications of russet. Flesh, yellow, crisp, very juicy, brisk, sugary, and perfumed. A very excellent apple ; of first-rate quality as a culinary fruit, and suitable also for the dessert. It is in use from October to February. The tree is quite hardy, and an excellent bearer. 92. DEVONSHIRE QUARRENDEN.—Hort. Identification.—Fors. Treat. 122. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 603. Down. Fr. Amer. 71. Synontmes.—Quarrington, Raii. Hist. ii. 1448. Devonshire Quarrington, Mort- Art. ii. 290. Red Quarentine, Miller and Sweet, Cat. 1790. Eed Quarenden, Hook. Pom. Lond. t 13, Lind. Guide, 6. Sack Apple, Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1, n. 1012. Quarentine, in Devonshire. Figures.—Hook. Pom. Lond. t. 13. Pom. Mag. t. 94. Ron. Pyr. Mai. pi. i. f. 7. Fruit, rather below medium size ; oblate, and sometimes a little angular in its outline. Skin, smooth and shining, entirely covered with deep purplish red, except where it is shaded by a leaf or twig, and then it is of a delicate pale green, pre- senting a clear and well- defined outline of the ob- ject which shades it. Eye, quite closed, with very long tomentose segments, and placed in an undu- lating and shallow basin, which is sometimes knob- bed, and generally lined with thick tomentum. Stalk, about three quarters of an inch long, fleshy at the insertion, deeply set in a round and funnel-shaped cavity. Flesh, white tinged with green, crisp, brisk, and very juicy, with a rich vinous, and refresh- ing flavor. A very valuable and first-rate dessert apple. It ripens on the tree the first week in August, and lasts till the end of September. It is one of the earliest summer dessert apples, and at that season, is particularly relished, for its fine, cooling, and refreshing, vinou
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