British Pomology Or, the History, Description, Classification, and Synonymes, of the Fruits and Fruit Trees of Great Britain

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_Rog. Fr. Cult._--The Fruit Cultivator, being a practical and accurate description of all the most esteemed species and varieties of Fruit, cultivated in the Gardens and Orchard...

1. They have the cells regular.--2. They are not covered with bloom.--3. They are not striped, and are either of an uniform color, or washed with red on the side next the sun.--...

Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter wide, and two inches and three quarters high; roundish, ribbed on the sides, and almost the same width at the apex as the base. Skin, ye...

The tree is hardy, vigorous, a most abundant bearer, and even in seasons when other varieties fail, this is almost safe to ensure a plentiful crop. It is extensively cultivated...

Fruit, large and conical; handsomely and regularly formed. Skin, pale greenish yellow, considerably covered with russet, and occasionally marked with bright red next the sun. Ey...

SYNONYMES.--Calville d’Eté, _Bret. Ecole_, ii. 470. Calleville d’Eté, _Schab. Prat._ ii. 89. Calleville d’Esté, _Merlet Abregé_, 132. Madeleine, _acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ but not o...

Fruit, medium sized; roundish, somewhat resembling the old Nonpareil. Skin, deep dull yellow on the shaded side, and fine red where exposed to the sun. Flesh, yellowish, firm, h...

Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter broad, and two inches and three quarters high; roundish, sometimes inclining to cylindrical, or rather oblato-cylindrical. Skin, smooth...

This is one of our oldest English apples, and still deserving of more general cultivation than is at present given to it. Formerly it constituted one of the principal dishes in...

Fruit, of good size; somewhat conical, being broad at the base, and narrow at the crown. Skin, dark grass-green on the shaded side; and dark muddy livid red where exposed to the...

Fruit, medium sized; roundish, and a little flattened. Skin, a fine deep yellow, which towards the sun is tinged with red, streaked with deeper and livelier red, and dotted all...

Fruit, medium sized; roundish, somewhat ribbed on the sides, and flattened at both ends; broadest at the base, and narrowing towards the apex, which is terminated by prominent r...

Fruit, small; round, and a little flattened. Skin, smooth and shining, pale yellowish-green in the shade; but clear yellow, with sometimes a faint tinge of red or orange next th...

Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters broad, and two inches and a quarter high; roundish, and flattened, with a few ribs on the sides which increase in size towards...

Fruit, above medium size, three inches wide, and two inches and a half high; roundish, and considerably flattened, almost oblate. Skin, yellow, covered with dark dots, and a few...

Fruit, medium sized, three inches wide, and two inches and three quarters high; oblate, irregular in its outline, caused by several obtuse angles or ribs, which extend from the...

SYNONYMES.--Pigeon Bigarré, _Knoop. Pom._ 62. Passe-pomme Panachée, _Ibid._ 132. Pigeonnet Blanc, _Hort. Soc. Cat._ ed 1, 786. Pigeonnet Blanc d’Eté, _acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ ed....

“Let every tree in every garden own The Red Streak as supreme, whose pulpous fruit, With gold irradiate, and vermilion, shines Tempting, not fatal, as the birth of that Primæval...

Fruit, below medium size; ovate, broadest at the base and narrowing obtusely towards the apex, a good deal of the shape of a Scarlet Nonpareil. Skin, yellow, tinged with green o...

Fruit, small, and nearly globular. Eye, small, with short connivent segments of the calyx. Stalk, short. Skin, of a bright gold color, tinged with faint and deeper red on the su...

Fruit, above medium size, three inches wide, and two inches and a quarter high; oblate, even and regularly formed. Skin, of a pale bluish-green, or verdigris color, changing as...

Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and nearly the same in height; roundish-ovate, or rather conical, flattened at the base, with obtuse angles on the sides, which...

The cider of this apple in a new state, is harsh and astringent, but grows soft and mellow with age, and was much esteemed by the writers of the seventeenth century.

Rather below medium size, two inches and a half wide, and two inches and a quarter high; roundish. Skin, smooth, of an uniform fine lemon color, when ripe, and strewed with star...

This is a handsome middle-sized apple, of a flat shape, and a gold color; with red towards the sun. This is a good apple, and keeps till March.--_Fors. Treat._ 104.

This is a middle sized apple, of an angular shape, and fine yellow color, with a beautiful red next the sun. It is of a tolerable flavor, and keeps till the middle of May, but i...

A large and first-rate cider apple, it is of an ovate shape, yellow on the shaded side, and brownish-red next the sun; in use in November. A bitter-sweet.--_H. S. C._ n. 496.

Fruit, quite large, round and regular in its form, a little flattened at both ends. Skin, rather thick, pale green, sometimes faintly tinged with yellow in the sun, and very dis...

Adams’s Pearmain Ashmead’s Kernel Barcelona Pearmain Braddick’s Nonpareil Boston Russet Breedon Pippin Bringewood Pippin Christie’s Pippin Claygate Pearmain Coe’s Golden Drop Co...

_Dainty Apple_ 110 Daisy 225 Darling 66 Decibus 226 _Delaware_ 197 Deptford Inn 226 Derbyshire 226 Detroit 226 _Black_ 226 _Red_ 226 Deux Ans, Hambledon 105 Hunt’s 114 Somersets...

Nanny 140 De Neige 141 _Nelson_ 141 _Never Fail_ 133 Newark, Harrison’s 239 Newington, Shepherd’s 270 Newtown Pippin 143 _Newtown Pippin_ 22 _Lord Gwydyr’s_ 21 _American_ 143 _G...

Pack-Horse 257 Painted Lady 257 Paradise, Norfolk 147 Summer Sweet 274 White 203 _Paris-apfel_ 48 _Parmäne, Englische Königs_ 174 _Scharlachrothe_ 179 _Parmain d’Hiver_ 208 Parm...

_Quarenden, Red_ 67 Quarrenden, Devonshire 67 _Striped_ 132 _Quarentine_ 67 _Red_ 67 _Quarrington_ 67 _Devonshire_ 67 _Queen_ 260 Queen Charlotte 260 Charlotte, Dredge’s 229 Dev...

Wacks Apfel 279 Wallace Wight 279 _Walmer Court_ 148 Waltham Abbey Seedling 200 Wanstall 200 Ward Apple 279 Warden, Winter 283 Watch Apple 221 Wax, Early 77 Weeper, Scarlet 269...