THE SCARLET PEARMAIN A P PL E .
Scarlet Pearmain. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 767.
Bell’s Scarlet, of some Nurseries.
A valuable table fruit, ripening in September,
and keeping till January. Its beauty is quite remarkable,
its fertility is great, and its flavour is, if
not of the very first quality, such at least as to entitle
it to a place in every good Garden.
There is no difference between the Scarlet P e a rmain
and the Bell’s Scarlet Apple of the English
Gardens.
This was sent to the Horticultural Society, and
was probably also distributed by the late Mr. Brad-
dick, under the name of the Michael Henry Pippin,
—a very different Apple, of American origin, with
a yellow skin.
Wood weak, light chestnut colour, with small
brown spots.
Leaves taper - pointed, doubly serrated, with
slender stalks, and small, linear-lanceolate stipules.
F ruit middle-sized, conical, of the true P e a rmain
form. Eye middle-sized, deeply sunk, surrounded
by small plaits, and crowned by the green
persistent calyx. S talk about an inch long, slender,
deeply inserted. Colour a rich glowing crimson
on the sunny s id e ; deep red, with a little yellow
intermixed, upon the other. Flesh whitish, crisp,
with a pleasant, rich, sugared juice.
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