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THE HAWTHORNDEN A P PL E
Hawtliornden. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 440.
White Hawthornden. Nicol’s Fruit Gardener, p . 256.
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This valuable variety is said to have been originally
raised eight or ten miles south of Edinburgh,
in the village, the name of which it bears, which is
better known as the birth-place of the poet Drummond.
I t is one of the most abundant bearers we
have; and as the extreme buds of the branches
are mostly blossom-buds, the ends become pendulous
when the crop of fruit is fully grown.
Ripens in October, and will keep good about
a month or six weeks.
Wood short-jointed, of a light chestnut colour,
downy, with small white specks.
Leaves oval, taper-pointed, regularly serrated,
with small stipulse.
Flowers middle-sized, with bright, rose-coloured,
roundish, cordate petals.
F ruit large, flattish, irregularly shaped, one
side being larger than the other. Stalk half an
inch long. Eye a little depressed. Skin clear,
greenish yellow, reddish on the side next the sun.
Flesh white. J uice plentiful, sweet and pleasant.
This is reckoned the best Apple in Scotland; but
it is apt to canker in that country.