British Pomology: Or, the History, Description, Classification, and Synonymes, of the Fruits and Fruit Trees of Great BritainHogg, Robert
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British Pomology: Or, the History, Description, Classification, and Synonymes, of the Fruits and Fruit Trees of Great Britain
Hogg, Robert
Apples
Fruit, below medium size, varying in shape from ovate to conical, and
irregularly ribbed on the sides. Skin, pale yellow, washed with pale
red, and streaked with deep and lively red. Eye, partially closed, with
long, broad segments, placed in a narrow and angular basin. Stalk, very
short, imbedded in a close shallow cavity, with a fleshy protuberance
on one side of it, and surrounded with rough russet. Flesh, tender,
juicy, and pleasantly flavored.
A second-rate dessert apple, peculiar to the Scotch orchards of
Clydesdale and Ayrshire; ripe in September.
Teuchat signifies, the Pee-wit or Lapwing.
360. TOKER’S INCOMPARABLE.
Fruit, very large, three inches and three quarters broad, and two
inches and three quarters high, in shape, very much resembling the
Gooseberry Apple; ovate, broad and flattened at the base, and with five
prominent ribs on the sides which render it distinctly five-sided.
Skin, smooth and shining, of a beautiful dark green, which assumes a
yellowish tinge as it ripens; and with a slight trace of red, marked
with a few crimson streaks, where exposed to the sun. Eye, large, and
nearly closed, with broad flat segments, set in a saucer-like basin,
which is surrounded with knobs, formed by the termination of the ribs.
Stalk, a quarter of an inch long, inserted in a wide cavity, which
is lined with a little rough russet. Flesh, yellowish, firm, crisp,
tender, juicy, and marrow-like, with a brisk and pleasant acid.
A first-rate culinary apple, grown in the Kentish orchards, about
Sittingbourne and Faversham; in use from November to Christmas.
361. TOWER OF GLAMMIS.--Hort.
IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 835. Leslie & Anders. Cat.
43. Caled Hort. Soc. Mem. vol. iv. 474.
SYNONYMES.--Glammis Castle, _acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ Late Carse of
Gowrie, _Ibid._ Carse of Gowrie, _Caled. Hort. Soc. Mem_, vol. i. 325.
The Gowrie, _in Clydesdale Orchards_.
[Illustration]
Fruit, large; conical, and distinctly four-sided, with four prominent
angles, extending from the base to the apex, where they terminate in
four corresponding ridges. Skin, deep sulphur-yellow, tinged in some
spots with green, and thinly strewed with brown russety dots. Eye,
closed, with broad ragged segments, set in a deep and angular basin.
Stalk, an inch long, inserted in a deep, funnel-shaped cavity, and only
just protruding beyond the base. Flesh, greenish-white, very juicy,
crisp, brisk, and perfumed.
A first-rate culinary apple, peculiar to the orchards of Clydesdale,
and the Carse of Gowrie; it is in use from November to February.
The tree is an excellent bearer.
362. TRANSPARENT CODLIN.--Lind.
IDENTIFICATION.--Lind. Guide, 35. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 169.
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