A good culinary apple, in use from October to Christmas.
IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 761. Rog. Fr. Cult. 41.
Fruit, below medium size, two inches and a quarter wide, and an inch and three quarters high; roundish, inclining to oval, with prominent ridges round the eye. Skin, pale yellow. Eye, large, and open with erect segments, and rather deeply placed in a round, wide, and angular basin. Flesh, white, soft, tender, very juicy, sugary, and pleasantly flavored.
A good early apple, either for culinary purposes or the dessert; ripe in the end of July and beginning of August, and continuing during September.
The tree is a free and vigorous grower, and an immense bearer, so much so, as to be injurious to the crop of the following year.
This apple was raised nearly half a century ago, by Mr. Morris, a market gardener, at Brentford, and is sometimes met with under the name of _Morris’s Sack and Sugar_.
IDENTIFICATION.--Cal. Traité, iii. 27. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 764. Pom. Mag. iii. 165.
SYNONYMES.--Seigneur d’Orsay, _acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ Concombre des Chartreux. Heilige Julians apfel.
Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter wide, and two inches and three quarters high; roundish, narrowing towards the eye, and angular on its sides. Skin, yellowish-green, covered with large patches of ashy colored russet, and in dry warm seasons, sometimes tinged with red. Eye, open, set in a rather shallow and plaited basin. Stalk, an inch long, slender, inserted in a shallow cavity. Flesh, yellowish-white, firm, juicy, sugary, and richly flavored.
A dessert apple of first-rate quality; it is in use from December to March.
The tree is a strong and vigorous grower, and an excellent bearer.
IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Trans. vol. iii. p. 324. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 768. Lind. Guide, 97. Down. Fr. Amer. 134.
SYNONYME.--Irish Russet, _Hort. Soc. Cat._ ed. i. 985.
Fruit, small, an inch and three quarters high, and about two inches and a half wide; roundish-oblate. Skin, light greenish-yellow, almost entirely covered with grey russet, and strewed with minute russety dots on the yellow part, but tinged with brownish-red on the side next the sun. Eye, large and open, set in a wide, shallow, and plaited basin. Stalk, short, not deeply inserted. Flesh, yellow, tinged with green, firm, crisp, tender, juicy, sugary, and highly flavored.