Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and two inches and a half high; roundish, with broad irregular ribs on the sides. Skin, green, covered with broken stripes of dark dull red on the side next the sun. Eye, large and closed, moderately depressed, and surrounded with broad plaits. Stalk, short and slender, deeply inserted in a narrow and uneven cavity. Flesh, greenish-white, firm, crisp, very juicy, briskly acid, and slightly perfumed. A culinary apple of first-rate quality; in use from November to March. 137. GANGES.--Lind. IDENTIFICATION.--Lind. Guide, 69. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 262. Fruit, large; oblong and irregular. Skin, green, with a few specks of darker green interspersed; and dashed with red on the sunny side. Eye, hollow. Stalk, half-an-inch long, deeply inserted, quite within the base. Flesh, pale yellowish-green, sub-acid, and of good flavor. A culinary apple; in use from October to January.--_Lindley._ 138. GARTER.--Knight. IDENTIFICATION.--Pom. Heref. t. 26. Lind. Guide, 105. Salisb. Or. 125. FIGURE.--Pom. Heref. t. 26. Fruit, medium sized; oblong, tapering from the base to the crown, perfectly round in its circumference, and free from angles. Skin, pale yellow on the shaded side; but when exposed to the sun of a bright lively red, shaded with darker streaks and patches quite into the crown. Specific gravity of its juice 1066. Though this contains but a small portion of saccharine matter, it contributes to afford excellent cider when mixed with some of the older varieties. 139. GLORIA MUNDI.--Hort. IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 271. Down. Fr. Amer. 110. SYNONYMES.--Monstrous Pippin, _Coxe View_, 117. Baltimore, _Hort. Trans._ iii. 120. _Lind. Guide_, 61. Glazenwood Gloria Mundi, _acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ New York Gloria Mundi, _Ibid._ American Gloria Mundi, _Ibid._ American Mammoth, _Ibid._ Mammoth, _Ron. Pyr. Mal._ 13. Ox Apple, _acc. Downing_. Pomme Josephine, _Poit et Turp._ v. tab. 423. Pomme Melon, _Ibid._ Belle Josephine, _Lelieur_. Belle Dubois, _acc. Dubrieul_. Paternoster, _Ibid._ Rhode Island, _Ibid._ Hausmütterchen, _Teutsche G. Mag._ ii. 453, t. 29. Menagère, _Ibid._ FIGURES.--Hort. Trans. vol. iii. t. 4. Ron. Pyr. Mal. pl. xxiv. f. 2. Poit. et Turp. tab. 423. Fruit, immensely large, sometimes measuring four inches and a half in diameter; of a roundish shape, angular on the sides, and flattened both at the base and the apex. Skin, smooth, pale yellowish-green, interspersed with white dots and patches of thin delicate russet, and tinged with a faint blush of red next the sun. Eye, large, open, and deeply set in a wide and slightly furrowed basin. Stalk, short and stout, inserted in a deep and open cavity, which is lined with rough russet. Flesh, white, tender, juicy, and though not highly flavored, is an excellent culinary apple. It is in use from October to Christmas.