. The apple and its varieties: being a history and description of the varieties of apples cultivated in the gardens and orchards of Great Britain. Apples. 30 BRITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. large spots of rough russet; the base is covered with a coating of russet, strewed with silvery scales. Eye, large and open, set in a shallow and plaited basin. Stalk, half an inch long, obliquely inserted by the side of a fleshy prominence. Flesh, firm, crisp, brisk, juicy, and pleasantly acid, resembling the "Winter Greening in flavor. It is an excellent culinary apple, in use from November to February; but a
. The apple and its varieties: being a history and description of the varieties of apples cultivated in the gardens and orchards of Great Britain. Apples. 30 BRITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. large spots of rough russet; the base is covered with a coating of russet, strewed with silvery scales. Eye, large and open, set in a shallow and plaited basin. Stalk, half an inch long, obliquely inserted by the side of a fleshy prominence. Flesh, firm, crisp, brisk, juicy, and pleasantly acid, resembling the "Winter Greening in flavor. It is an excellent culinary apple, in use from November to February; but as it has nothing to recommend it, in preference to other varieties already in cultivation, it need only be grown in large collections. The original tree was produced from a pip, accidentally sown in the home nursery of Messrs. Ronalds, of Brentford, and from growing on a bank by the side of a ditch, it was called the Bank Apple. 17. BARCELONA PEARMAIN.—Hort. Identification.—Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 532. Lind. Guide, 62. Eoe. Fr. Cult. 74. Stnonymes.—Speckled Golden Eeinette, Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1, n. 933. Speckled Pearmain, Ibid. ed. 2. Polinia Pearmain, Ace. Rog. Fr. Cult. Eeinette Eousse, Duh. Arb. Fr. I. 302. Eeinette des Carmes, Ace. Chart. Cat. 51. Glace Eouge, Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1, n. 365. Kleine Casseler Eeinette, Viel Kemobst. I. 182. Cassel Eeinette, Chriit. Handb. No. 58. PiGDREs.—Pom. Mag. t. 85, Eon. Pyr. Mai. pi. xxi., f. 4. Fruit, of medium size ; oval. Skin, clear pale yellow, mottled with red in the shade; but dark red next the sun, the whole covered with numerous star-like rus- sety specks, those on the shaded side being brownish, and those next the sun yellow. Eye, small and open, with erect acuminate segments, and set in a round, even, and pretty deep basin. Stalk, about an inch long, slender, inserted in a rather shallow cavity, which is lined with russet. Flesh, yellowish white, firm, crisp, very juicy, and with a rich, vinous, and highly aromatic
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