LUCOMBE’S SEEDLING APPLE.
Lucombe’s Seedling. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 575.
A fine variety, raised, we presume from its name,
by the Messrs. Lucombes, of Exeter, so well known
as successful cultivators both of fruit and forest
trees. It has been in the Gardens near London for
several years.
It is chiefly valuable as a kitchen Apple, being
scarcely small enough, or sufiiciently high-flavoured,
for the table. It is, however, so handsome, and so
great a bearer, that it must be particularly useful to
those who grow fruit for the market.
Ripens in October, and will keep through the
winter.
W ood erect, reddish chestnut, with a tinge of
russet, sprinkled with numerous pale-brown dots,
and covered towards the extremities with a hoary
pubescence.
L eaves middle-sized, oval, pointed, crenated.
P etioles long, erect, rather slender. S tipu l es
long, linear.
F lowers small. P etals blunt.
F ruit large, roundish, slightly angular, contracted
at the eye, which is small and surrounded
with minute plaits. S talk short, thick, in a moderately
deep cavity. S k in smooth, green, covered
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