Fruit, above medium size, two inches and three quarters broad, and two inches high; very similar in form to the old Nonpariel. Skin, of a fine lively green color, which is glossy and shining, but almost entirely covered with patches, and reticulations of thick greyish-brown russet, which in some parts is rough and cracked; sometimes tinged with brown where exposed to the sun. Eye, very small, half open, with short, flat, ovate segments, and set in a small, narrow, and rather shallow basin. Stalk, three quarters of an inch long, inserted in a rather shallow and russety cavity. Flesh, greenish-white, firm, crisp, sugary, and with a very powerful yet pleasant sub-acid flavor. An excellent culinary apple admirably adapted for sauce; but too acid for the dessert. It is in use from January to April. The tree is a vigorous grower, and an excellent bearer. This variety was raised in 1807, by Thomas Netherton Parker, Esq., of Sweeny, in Shropshire, and twenty specimens of the fruit, were exhibited at the London Horticultural Society, in 1820, the aggregate weight of which, was seven pounds thirteen ounces. 354. SYKE HOUSE RUSSET.--Hooker. IDENTIFICATION.--Hook. Pom. Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 752. Lind. Guide, 100. Fors. Treat. 126. Rog. Fr. Cult. 106. SYNONYMES.--Sykehouse, _acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ Englische Spitalsreinette, _Diel Kernobst._ x. 139. FIGURES.--Hook. Pom. Lond. t. 40. Pom. Mag. t. 81. Ron. Pyr. Mal. pl. xxxviii. f. 1. [Illustration] Fruit, below medium size, two inches and a quarter broad, by one inch and three quarters high; roundish-oblate. Skin, yellowish-green, but entirely covered with brown russet, strewed with silvery grey scales; sometimes it has a brownish tinge on the side which is exposed to the sun. Eye, small and open, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, half-an-inch long, inserted in a shallow cavity. Flesh, yellowish, firm, crisp, and juicy, with a rich, sugary, and very high flavor. One of the most excellent dessert apples; it is in use from October to February. The tree is a free grower, hardy, and an excellent bearer; it attains about the middle size, and is well adapted for growing as an espalier, when grafted on the paradise stock. This variety originated at the village of Syke House, in Yorkshire, whence its name. Diel’s nomenclature of the Syke House Russet, affords a good example of the transformations the names of fruits are subject to, when translated from one language to another; he writes it Englische Spitalsreinette, which he translates Sik-House Apple, because as he supposed it received this appellation, either from the briskness of its flavor being agreeable to invalids, or from its having originated in the garden of an hospital, He says he finds it only in Kirke’s Fruit Tree Catalogue, _where it is erroneously printed Syke-House_! 355. TARVEY CODLIN.--Hort. IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Trans. vol. vii. p. 383. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 167. Lind. Guide, 83.