A culinary apple of second-rate quality; in use during October and November. It is much grown in the Berkshire orchards. 126. FLOWER OF KENT.--Park. IDENTIFICATION.--Park. Par. 587. Raii Hist. ii. 1448. Fors. Treat. 101. Lind Guide, 14. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 254. Down. Fr. Amer. 83. Rog. Fr. Cult. 37. FIGURE.--Ron. Pyr. Mal. pl. xv. f. 2. [Illustration] Fruit, large; roundish, and considerably flattened, with obtuse angles on the sides, which extend into the basin of the eye, where they form prominent knobs on the apex. Skin, greenish-yellow, thickly strewed with green dots on the shaded side; but next the sun, dull red marked with patches and streaks of livelier red, and dotted with light grey dots. Eye, large and open, with broad reflexed segments, and placed in a large angular basin, which is marked with russet. Stalk, an inch long, thick and strong, deeply set in an angular cavity. Flesh, greenish-white, firm, crisp, and juicy, with a pleasant and briskly acid flavor. A culinary apple of first-rate quality; in use from November to January. The tree is a pretty good bearer, one of the strongest and most vigorous growers, and consequently more suitable for the orchard than the fruit garden. This is a very old variety, being mentioned by Parkinson, Leonard Meager, and Ray, but there is no notice of it in the works of any subsequent writer till the publication of Forsyth’s Treatise. 127. FLUSHING SPITZENBURGH.--Down. IDENTIFICATION.--Down. Fr. Amer. 139. Fruit, medium sized; roundish, narrowing towards the eye. Skin, entirely covered with deep red, which is streaked with deeper red, except on any small portion where it has been shaded, and there it is green, marked with broken streaks and mottles of red, the whole surface strewed with light grey russety dots. Eye, small and closed, very slightly depressed, and surrounded with plaits. Stalk, nearly an inch long, inserted in a deep and russety cavity. Flesh, greenish, tender, sweet, juicy, and without any predominance of acid. An American dessert apple of little value; in use from October to January. In the Horticultural Society’s Catalogue this is made synonymous with Esopus Spitzenburgh, but it is quite a different variety. 128. FOREST STYRE.--Knight. IDENTIFICATION.--Pom. Heref. pl. xii. SYNONYMES.--Stire, _Marsh. Gloucest._ ii. 251. _Hort. Soc. Cat._ ed. 3, n. 799. Forest Styre, _Lind. Guide_, 104. FIGURE.--Pom. Heref. pl. xii. Fruit, below medium size; roundish, inclining to oblate, regularly and handsomely shaped. Skin, pale yellow, with a blush of red on the side which is exposed to the sun. Eye, small and closed, with short obtuse segments, set in a shallow and plaited basin. Stalk, very short, inserted in a shallow cavity. Flesh, firm. Specific gravity of the juice from 1076 to 1081.