Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and two inches and three quarters high; roundish, and angular. Skin, pale greenish-yellow, strewed with dark dots, and imbedded green specks on the shaded side; but bright red, which is streaked with crimson, on the side next the sun. Eye, small and open, set in an angular and plaited basin. Stalk, short and thick, inserted in a rather deep cavity. Flesh, white, firm, juicy, and pleasantly flavored. A culinary apple of first-rate quality; in use from October to February. The tree is a strong and vigorous grower, attains a large size, and is an excellent and early bearer. This variety as well as the preceeding was raised in the Exeter nursery. 217. MADELEINE.--Calvel. IDENTIFICATION.--Calvel. Traité. iii. 24. SYNONYMES.--Margaret, _Mill. Dict._ Summer Pippin, _acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ ed. 3. Fruit, rather below medium size; roundish. Skin, yellowish-white, with numerous imbedded pearly specks, with an orange tinge next the sun, and sometimes marked with faint streaks of red. Eye, small and closed, set in a narrow basin, and surrounded with several unequal plaits. Stalk, short and slender, not extending beyond the base, and inserted in a funnel-shaped cavity. Flesh, white, very crisp and tender, juicy, sugary, and highly flavored. An early dessert apple, of good, but only second-rate quality; ripe in the middle and end of August. The tree is a free grower, and is readily distinguished by the excessive pubescence of its leaves and shoots. Mr. Lindley in the “Guide to the Orchard” considers this variety as identical with the Margaret of Ray, which is a mistake. It is no doubt the Margaret of Miller, but certainly not of any English author either preceeding, or subsequent to him. It is to be observed that the lists of fruits given by Miller in his Dictionary are chiefly taken from the works of the French pomologists, while the fruits of his own country are almost wholly neglected; and the only reason I can assign for him describing this variety for the Margaret is, because our own Margaret being by some authors called the _Magdalene_, he might have thought the two synonymous.--See Margaret. 218. MAIDEN’S BLUSH.--Coxe. IDENTIFICATION.--Coxe, View, 106. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 420. Fors. Treat. 213. Down. Fr. Amer. 90. Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter wide, and two inches and a half high; roundish and flattened. Skin, of a fine, rich, pale-yellow color, tinged with a blush of beautiful red on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, pretty large and closed, set in a round, even, and rather deep basin, Stalk, short, inserted in a deep, and round cavity. Flesh, white, tender, brisk, and pleasantly acid. A very beautiful culinary apple, but not of first-rate quality. It is in use during September and October. The tree is a vigorous grower, and an abundant bearer.