Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters wide at the base, and the same high; conical, or abrupt pearmain-shaped, round at the base, and tapering towards the apex. Skin, yellow, streaked all over with large patches, and broken streaks of red, mixed with silvery russet, strewed with numerous russety dots, and covered with large patches of rough russet on the base. Eye, closed, half open, with long acuminate segments, placed in a wide, shallow, and plaited basin. Stalk, half-an-inch long, obliquely inserted under a fleshy protuberance on one side of it, which is a permanent and distinguishing character of this apple. Flesh, deep yellow, firm, crisp, juicy, richly, and highly perfumed. An excellent apple, long cultivated, and generally regarded as one of the popular varieties of this country, it is suitable either for culinary purposes, or the dessert, and is in use during September and October. The tree is a good grower, and healthy; of an upright habit of growth, and forms a fine standard tree of the largest size. It succeeds well grafted on the paradise stock, when it forms handsome espaliers, and open dwarfs. This is what in many nurseries is cultivated as the _Royal Pearmain_, but erroneously. It is one of the oldest English varieties, being mentioned by Parkinson, in 1629. 351. SUMMER STRAWBERRY. Fruit, rather below medium size, two and a half inches broad, and an inch and three quarters high; oblate, even and regularly formed. Skin, smooth and shining, striped all over with yellow, and blood-red stripes, except on any portion that is shaded, and there it is red. Eye, prominent, not at all depressed, closed with long flat segments, and surrounded with prominent plaits. Stalk, three quarters of an inch long, inserted in a round, narrow cavity, which is lined with russet. Flesh, white, tinged with yellow, soft, tender, juicy, brisk and pleasantly flavored. A dessert apple, ripe in September, but when kept long becomes dry and mealy. It is much cultivated in all the Lancashire and northern orchards of England. 352. SURREY FLAT-CAP.--H. Fruit, above medium size, three inches wide, and two inches and a quarter high; oblate, even and regularly formed. Skin, of a pale bluish-green, or verdigris color, changing as it ripens to a yellowish tinge, and marked with dots and flakes of rough veiny russet, on the shaded side; but deep red, which is almost obscured with rough veiny russet on the side next the sun. Eye, open, with broad segments, reflexed at the tips, set in a wide, shallow, and plaited basin. Stalk, half-an-inch long, inserted in a round and deep cavity. Flesh, yellow, firm, not very juicy, but rich and sugary. A very excellent dessert apple, remarkable for its singular color, but is rather void of acidity. It is in use from October to January. 353. SWEENY NONPAREIL.--Hort. IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Trans. vol. iv. 526. Lind. Guide, 99. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 484.