Fruit, medium sized, three inches wide, and two inches and a quarter high; oblate, and ribbed on the sides. Skin, smooth and shining, greenish-yellow, marked with a number of imbedded dark-green specks; washed with red on the side next the sun, and with a circle of red rays round the base. Eye, partially closed, with broad and flat segments; set in an angular and plaited basin. Stalk, short and slender, inserted in a round and rather deep cavity. Flesh, white, tender, crisp, very juicy, sweet, brisk, and pleasantly aromatic. An excellent culinary or dessert apple, highly esteemed about Lancaster, where it is much grown; it is in use from October to Christmas. The habit of the tree is drooping, like that of the Weeping Willow. 204. LADY’S FINGER.--Fors. IDENTIFICATION.--Fors. Treat. 111. Fruit, below medium size, two inches and a quarter wide, and two inches and three quarters high; pyramidal, rounded at the base, distinctly five sided, flattened at the apex, where it is terminated in five prominent knobs, with a smaller one between each. Skin, smooth, dull greenish-yellow, strewed with minute, grey russety dots; tinged on the side next the sun with a dull blush, which is interspersed with spots of deep lively red. Eye, small and partially closed, set in a small and regularly notched basin. Stalk, slender, short, and obliquely inserted under a fleshy protuberance. Flesh, yellow, tender, juicy, and pleasantly acid. A culinary apple much grown about Lancaster; it is in use from November, to March or April. This is a very different apple from the _White Paradise_, which is sometimes called “The Lady’s Finger.” 205. LAMB ABBEY PEARMAIN.--Hort. IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Trans. vol. v. p. 269. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 2, 549. Lind. Guide, 74. Diel Kernobst. vi. B. 84. SYNONYME.--Laneb Abbey Pearmain, _McInt. Orch._ 24. FIGURES.--Hort. Trans. vol. v. t. 10, f. 2. Ron. Pyr. Mal. pl. xxi. f. 2. [Illustration] Fruit, small; roundish or oblato-oblong, regularly and handsomely shaped. Skin, smooth greenish-yellow on the shaded side, but becoming clear yellow when at maturity; on the side next the sun it is dull orange, streaked and striped with red, which becomes more faint as it extends to the shaded side, and dotted all over with minute, punctured, russety dots. Eye, rather large, and open, with long, broad segments, reflexed at the tips, and set in a wide, deep and plaited basin. Stalk, from a quarter to half-an-inch long, slender, deeply inserted in a russety cavity. Flesh, yellowish-white, firm, crisp, very juicy and sugary, with a brisk, and rich vinous flavor. A dessert apple of first-rate quality, and very valuable, both as regards the richness of its flavor, and the long period to which it remains in perfection; it is in use from January, and keeps till April without shrivelling. The tree is healthy, a free grower, and good bearer.