SYNONYME AND FIGURE.--Nonpareil Russet, _Ron. Pyr. Mal._ 25, pl. xiii. f. 3. [Illustration] Fruit, small; conical and irregularly formed, being generally larger on one side than the other, and having the eye placed laterally. Skin, green, covered with large patches of thin grey russet, strewed with silvery scales, and marked with green dots. Eye, small and open, with segments reflexed at the tips, and set in a plaited basin. Stalk, short, and deeply inserted in an oblique cavity. Flesh, greenish, firm, crisp, juicy, sugary, briskly flavored, and charged with a pleasant aroma. An excellent dessert apple, of the first quality; in use from October to March, and will keep even as long as May and June. Can this be the same as the Morris’s Nonpareil Russet, of the London Horticultural Society’s catalogue, which is said to be oblate? I know that the variety described above is the true one, the friend from whom I received it having procured it from Mr. Morris himself. This variety was raised by Mr. Morris of Brentford. 236. MORRIS’S RUSSET.--H. Fruit below medium size, two inches and a half wide, and two inches and a quarter high; round, regularly and handsomely shaped. Skin, covered with a coat of smooth, thin, brown russet, with occasionally a bright, fiery-crimson flame breaking out on the side next the sun, sometimes so large as to form a fine, smooth, and varnished crimson cheek. Eye, large and open, set in a small and shallow basin. Stalk, very short, inserted in a rather small cavity. Flesh, firm, but tender, juicy, brisk and sugary, charged with a very rich, and powerful aromatic flavor. This is a dessert apple, of the highest excellence, and ought certainly to form one in every collection, however small; it is in season from October to February. This, like the two preceeding varieties, was raised by Mr. Morris of Brentford. 237. NANNY.--Hort. IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 452. Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters wide, and two inches and a half high; roundish, narrowing towards the apex, and somewhat angular on the sides. Skin, smooth, greenish-yellow with broken streaks of red, on the shaded side; but bright red, streaked with dark crimson, on the side next the sun; the whole strewed with russety dots. Eye, open, with flat segments, placed in an angular basin, which is marked with linear marks of russet. Stalk, short, inserted in a rather deep, round cavity, thickly lined with rough russet, which extends in ramifications over the base. Flesh, yellow, rather soft and tender, juicy, sugary, and highly flavored. A dessert apple of excellent quality, and when in perfection, a first-rate fruit; it is in use during October, but soon becomes meally. The tree attains the middle size and is a good bearer, much more so than the Ribston Pippin, to which the fruit bears some resemblance in flavor. 238. DE NEIGE.--Hort. IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 454. Lind. Guide, 22. Down. Fr. Amer. 91.