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
A showy, large, dark, blood-red fruit, but rather coarse, and scarcely
worth cultivation. Fruit, very large, roundish, distinctly ribbed, and
irregular in its outline. Stalk, short and strong, and calyx set in a
well marked basin. Skin, smooth, deep dingy red over the whole surface.
Flesh, white, rather dry, and without much flavor. September. _Down Fr.
Amer._ 86.
569.--GRAUCH DOUCE.
A cider apple of large size, round shape, and striped with red; it is
in use during October and November.--_H. S. C._ n. 296.
570. GREAVES’S PIPPIN.
A large culinary apple of first-rate quality; ripe in September.--_Riv.
Cat._
571. GREEN.
A medium sized kitchen apple, of first-rate quality; it is of a round
shape and green color; keeps very sound from January till June, and
is less acid than the Winter Greening or French Crab, but not so
juicy.--_H. S. C._ n. 299.
572. GREEN BALSAM.
A culinary apple of medium size, roundish shape, yellowish-green color,
and in use during December and January.--_H. S. C._ n. 300.
573. GREEN DRAGON.
This is a fine large apple, of an excellent flavor, and pale-green
color. It is rather too large for the table, and is therefore mostly
used as a kitchen apple. It keeps till March.--_Fors. Treat._ 105.
574. GREEN EYELET.
A small cider apple, of roundish figure and green color.--_H. S. C._ n.
301.
575. GREEN LEADINGTON.
A medium sized culinary apple, of second-rate quality; it is of conical
shape, green color, and in use during September and October.--_H. S.
C._ n. 400.
576. GREEN EVERLASTING.
A small apple of inferior quality, roundish shape, and green color; it
is in use during March and April.--_H. S. C._ p. 18.
577. GREEN LANGLAST.
A scotch apple, much grown in the orchards of the Carse of Gowrie. The
tree is a most excellent bearer; fruit of capital quality when kept;
tree, middle size, bears well. The _Green Virgin_, the _Standard_, and
_Green Langlast_, may be reckoned the most profitable winter apples in
this district.--_M. C. H. S._ iv. 471.
578. GREEN VIRGIN.
Tree an excellent bearer; bears when young; fruit keeps well, is of
good quality, and of a fine yellow when kept. This is one of the most
valuable apples in the Carse of Gowrie, but only known in Gourdiehill
Orchard; tree healthy, middle sized.--_M. C. H. S._ iv. 471.
579. GREEN WINE
A variety peculiar to the Carse of Gowrie orchards, in Perthshire.
Fruit, of excellent quality, tree bears well, but sickly when old.--_M.
C. H. S._ iv. 474.
580. GREY QUEENING.
A medium sized dessert apple, of second-rate quality, it is of an
oval shape, green and russety color; and is in use from December till
February.--_H. S. C._ n. 609.
581. GRIDDLETON PIPPIN.
This is a large angular-shaped apple, of a green color, with a
little blush towards the sun. It is a baking apple, and keeps till
March.--_Fors. Treat._ 105.
582. GROSSER EDLER PRINZESSINAPFEL.
SYNONYME.--Princesse Noble, _acc. Diel._
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