A good dessert apple but lacks acidity; it is in use during September and October. About Lancaster this is a well-known apple. The original tree, which is of great age, is still standing in the nursery of John Hargreave and Sons, hence it is called Hargreave’s Green-Sweet. 167. HARVEY APPLE.--Park. IDENTIFICATION.--Park. Par. 587. Aust. Orch. 54. Worl. Vin. 159. Raii Hist. ii. 1448. Switz. Fr. Gard. 138. Lind. Guide, 72. SYNONYME.--Doctor Harvey, _Hort. Soc. Cat._ ed. 3, n. 208. Fruit, large, three inches wide, and about the same high; ovate, and somewhat angular. Skin, greenish-yellow, dotted with green and white specks, and marked with ramifications of russet about the apex. Eye, small, very slightly depressed, and surrounded with several prominent plaits. Stalk, short and slender, inserted in an uneven and deep cavity. Flesh, white, firm, crisp, juicy, pleasantly acid, and perfumed. A culinary apple of first-rate quality, well-known and extensively cultivated in Norfolk; it is in use from October to January. The tree is large, hardy, and a great bearer. In the Guide to the Orchard, it is said, “When baked in an oven which is not too hot, these apples are most excellent; they become sugary, and will keep a week or ten days, furnishing for the dessert a highly flavored sweetmeat.” This is one of the oldest English apples. It is first mentioned by Parkinson as “a faire, greate, goodly apple; and very well rellished.” Ralph Austen calls it “a very choice fruit, and the trees beare well.” Indeed it is noticed by almost all the early authors. According to Ray it is named in honor of Dr. Gabriel Harvey, of Cambridge, “Pomum Harveianum ab inventore Gabriele Harveio Doctore nomen sortitum Cantabrigiæ suæ deliciæ.” 168. HARVEY’S PIPPIN.--Hort. IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, p. 19. SYNONYME.--Dredge’s Beauty of Wilts, _acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ _Rog. Fr. Cult._ 53. Fruit, medium sized; roundish. Skin, yellow on the shaded side, but washed with fine red on the side next the sun, and marked with crimson dots. Flesh, firm, crisp, juicy, and richly flavored. An excellent and useful apple either for culinary purposes or dessert use; it is in season from December to February. The tree is a free grower and an excellent bearer; it attains above the middle size, and may be grown either as an open dwarf, or an espalier, when grafted on the paradise stock. 169. HARVEY’S WILTSHIRE DEFIANCE.--H. [Illustration]