LONGVILLE’S K ERN E L A PPL E .
Longville’s Kernel. Hort, Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 567.
Sam’s Crab. Ibid. no. 1021.
This is a Herefordshire Apple of considerable
merit, and but little known. I t ripens at a period
when good Apples are not very common, on which
account it deserves to be more generally cultivated.
Whether the Sam’s Crab is really the same
as this, is not quite certain ; but all th a t we have
had an opportunity of examining have been exactly
like it.
An excellent Autumn fruit, in perfection from
the middle of August to the middle of September.
I t is a great bearer, either as a dwarf or standard.
Wood slightly downy, chestnut-coloured, thickly
set with small well-defined dots.
Leaves ovate - oblong, flat, regularly but not
deeply serrated, with long stalks, and very small
lanceolate stipules.
F ruit middle-sized, oval, approaching to conical,
rather angular, plaited round the eye, which is
deeply sunk. S talk short, deeply inserted. Skin
greenish yellow, streaked and spotted with bright
red. F lesh firm, yellow, perfumed, with a rich,
pleasant, sweet, subacid juice.
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