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THE CORNISH GILLIFLOWER APPLE.
Julyflower. Hort. Soc. Trans. vol. ii. p. 74.
Cornish Julyflower. Ibid. vol. iii. p. 323. Fruit. Cat. no. 499.
Calville d’Angleterre. Baumann Cat.
This is the best Apple that is known, if high
flavour, combined with a very rich subacid saccharine
juice, be the qualities we most desire in fruit;
but it is a bad bearer. Its merit is, however, of so
decided a character, that no one who is aware of
its excellence would wish to be without a tree or
two, for the sake of the chance of adding so valuable
a variety to his winter dessert.
It ripens in November, and will keep till April.
The fruit is apt to grow from the extremities of the
shoots, which should be remembered in pruning the
trees.
The first account of this sort is to be found in
the Hort. Trans, vol. ii. p. 74, in a letter from Sir
Christopher Hawkins, in 1813. It was discovered
in a cottage garden near Truro, about ten or fifteen
years before that d a te ; and was considered by the
Society of so much importance, that the silver
medal was awarded to Sir Christopher Hawkins
for his exertions in bringing it into notice.
It has already found its way abroad ; for the
Horticultural Society received it in 1826 from