THE DEVONSHIRE QUARENDEN APPLE.
Devonshire Quarenden. Forsyth, tio. 122. ed. 7. Hort. hoc.
Fruit Cat. no. 822. Hooker’s Pomona Londinensis,
no. 13.
Red Quarenden,
Sack Apple
iden, 7 ^ Collections.
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There is no better Autumn Apple than this,
either in point of productiveness, beauty, or excellent
flavour. As a standard, its crop is always considerable
; and if cultivated as a dwarf, the appearance
of the trees, laden with fruit, is even more an
object of ornament than fruit-trees usually are.
I t is fit to gather in the month of August, and in
most seasons will last till the end of September.
I t was sent from Devonshire to the Gardens
about London, and was probably raised in th a t
county, where it is extensively cultivated.
Wood moderately long, dark violet brown,
woolly or downy, thinly and irregularly sprinkled
with linear and roundish specks.
Leaves ovate-oblong, tapering to the point,
irregularly serrated. P etioles rather more than
an inch long. S tipules somewhat falcate.
Flowers opening early, pale, middle-sized.
P etals roundish concave.
F ruit middle-sized, oblate, or round, and depressed,
the outline tolerably regular. E y e slightly
or not at all depressed, entirely closed by the long