An excellent dessert apple, of first-rate quality, in use from October to Christmas, after which it becomes meally.
IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 102.
Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters wide, and two inches and a quarter high; roundish, flattened at the base, and narrowing towards the apex, sometimes inclining to conical. Skin, yellow, but with a blush and a few streaks of red next the sun, marked with a few patches of russet, and sprinkled with russety dots, which are thickest round the eye. Eye, large and open, set in a shallow and irregular basin. Stalk, short, thick and fleshy, generally obliquely inserted by the side of a fleshy swelling, and surrounded with a patch of rough russet. Flesh, yellowish, tender, juicy, and sub-acid.
An excellent culinary apple of the first quality, in use from October to Christmas.
This variety was raised by Mr. Henry Burn, gardener to the Marquis of Aylesbury, at Tottenham Park, near Marlborough.
SYNONYME.--Byson Wood, _Hort. Soc. Cat._ ed. 3, n. 104.
Fruit, below medium size; oblato-ovate, regularly and handsomely shaped. Skin, green, entirely covered with ashy grey russet, and strewed with greyish white freckles. Eye, small, and slightly closed, set in a round and even basin. Stalk, an inch long, slender, inserted in a rather shallow and angular cavity. Flesh, greenish, firm, crisp, and juicy, with a brisk, sugary, and aromatic flavor.
A dessert apple of the first quality, in use from December to February.
IDENTIFICATION.--Knoop Pom. 13. Chart. Cat. 56. Diel Kernobst. B. II. 7. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 109.
SYNONYMES.--White Calville, _Acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ Calville Blanc, _Jard. Franç._ 106. Wahrer Weiszer Sommer Calville, _Diel Kernobst._ B. II. 7. Weisser Sommerkalwil, _Baum. Cat._ 1850.
Fruit, medium sized, about three inches broad, and two inches high; roundish and flattened at the ends, with prominent ribs on the sides, which extend to the eye and form ridges round the apex--the true character of the Calvilles. Skin, tender and delicate; when ripe, of a very pale straw color, and without the least tinge of red on the side exposed to the sun, but sometimes marked with a few traces of delicate russet, but no dots. Eye, large, and closed with long, broad, acuminate segments, and set in a pretty deep and very angular basin. Stalk, three quarters of an inch long, stout, inserted in a wide and rather shallow cavity, which is lined with thin russet. Flesh, white, tender, and delicate, with a sweet and pleasant flavor.