Apple
Description
This section is from the book "A Dictionary Of Modern Gardening", by George William Johnson, David Landreth. Also available from Amazon: The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses.
Apple
(Pyrus malus).
Varieties
There are 1,496 named varieties in the last edition of the London Horticultural Society's List of Fruits, of which they have 897 cultivated in their gardens. It may readily be presumed that in such a multitude there are many of inferior quality: indeed it is not improbable there are some utterly unworthy of culture. The object in thus congregating them was praiseworthy - to determine their comparative value. The true policy is evidently to select from the mass those which, from some special quality, are most deserving of perpetuity. The following named varieties are believed to be eminently worthy of culture. We copy from the catalogue of D. Landreth and Fulton.
Explanation Of Abbreviations
Colour - r red; str striped; y yellow; g green. Size - l large; m medium; s small.
Those marked * are of American origin. Those marked + are celebrated for the table.
SUMMER APPLES. | ||||||
NAME. | COLOUR. | FORM. | SIZE. | QLTY | SEASON. | |
Red Astrachan .... | r | roundish | M | 1 | July | to Aug. |
*+Bevan ..... | str r | flat | L | 1 | July | Aug. |
English Codlin .... | y | conical | L | 1 | Aug. | Sept. |
+Early Queen .... | r str | roundish | M | 1 | July | Aug. |
*+Early Harvest .... | y | roundish | M | 1 | July | Aug. |
Summer Queen .... | str | roundish | M | 1 | July | Aug. |
*Lippincott ..... | r | oblong | M | 1 | July | Aug. |
Siberian Crab .... | y | conical | S | 2 | Aug. | Oct. |
Woolman's Harvest | str | roundish | M | 1 | Aug. | Sept. |
*+Summer Pearmain | r | oblong | L | 1 | Aug. | Sept. |
Juneating Red .... | y str | ovate | M | 1 | July | Aug. |
FALL AND WINTER APPLES. | ||||||
Alexander ..... | y str | conical | L | 1 | Oct. | to Dec. |
+Baldwin..... | r | roundish | L | 1 | Nov. | Mar. |
*+Bellflower, Yellow | y | conical | L | 1 | Oct. | Feb. |
*Carthouse..... | r | flat | M | 1 | Dec. | Apl. |
Codlin Irish..... | y | conical | L | 2 | Oct. | Dec. |
NAME. | COLOUR. | FORM. | SIZE. | QLTY | SEASON. |
Codlin White..... | y | conical | I. | 2 | Oct. to Dec. |
*Cumberland Spice | y | flat | M | 1 | Nov. Feb. |
Doctor or Dewitt .... | str | roundish | L | 2 | Oct. Jan. |
*+Greening, Rhode Island | g | roundish | L | Oct. Feb. | |
Ladies' Sweeting .... | yr | roundish | L | Oct. Apl. | |
Gates' Apple..... | y | roundish | M | Nov. Feb. | |
*Grindstone ..... | str | roundish | L | Oct. June | |
Gravenstien ..... | str | roundish | L | Oct. Nov. | |
Hawthornden ..... | y | roundish | L | 1 | Oct. Dec. |
Harrison ..... | y | conical | M | 2 | Nov. Apl. |
Lady Apple, pomme d' Api. | y | flat | S | Nov. Mar. | |
Tolman's Sweeting .... | y | roundish | M | Nov. Mar. | |
Lady Finger ..... | r | oblong | M | Nov. Feb. | |
*+Maiden's Blush .... | yr | flat | M | Sept. Nov. | |
*Morgan..... | r | roundish | L | Oct. Dec. | |
*+Northern Spy .... | r | conical | L | Dec. April | |
Pearmain, Blue winter | r | conical | L | Nov. Jan. | |
*Pennock's Red .... | g | roundish | L | Nov. Mar. | |
Pippin, Bullock .... | y | roundish | S | Dec. Mar. | |
" Golden .... | y | roundish | s | Nov. Mar. | |
" *American .... | y | roundish | L | Dec. Mar. | |
" *Michael Henry . | y | oblong | M | Nov. Mar. | |
" Fall, or Holland . | y | flat | L | Oct. Jan. | |
" Blenheim .... | y | roundish | L | Nov. Jan. | |
" Ribston .... | y | roundish | M | 1 | Nov. Jan. |
" *HollowCore | y | roundish | L | Nov. Mar. | |
" *+Green Newton | g | roundish | M | Dec. April | |
" *+Yellow Newton | y | roundish | M | Dec. April | |
Priestley ..... | str | oblong | L | Dec. April | |
Pound Apple .... | g | roundish | L | Oct. Jan. | |
*+Porter..... | y | oblong | L | Sept. Nov. | |
*+Roxbury Russet .... | roundish | L | Dec. May | ||
Roman Stem ..... | y | round | L | Oct. Jan. | |
Rambo...... | y | flat | M | Oct. Dec. | |
*Seek-no-further, Red | r | round | L | 1 | Nov. Apl. |
Newton Spitzenburg | yr | roundish | M | Nov. Feb. | |
*+Spitzenburg, Esopus | str | conical | L | Nov. Apl. | |
*+Spitzenburg, Kaighn's | r | round | L | Nov. April | |
Sweeting, Moore's | y | round | L | Dec. Mar. | |
*Swaar ...... | y | roundish | L | Nov. Mar. | |
*+Tewksbury Blush | r | round | S | Jan. May | |
*t\'andervere .... | y | flat | M | Oct. Feb. | |
*Wine, or Hay's .... | r | round | L | Nov. Mar. | |
*Winesap ..... | r | round | M | Nov. Apl. | |
*\Vinter Queen .... | r | conical | L | 2 | Nov. Mar. |
Yorkshire Greening .... | g | round | L | Dec. Feb. |
The following outlines and descriptions of a few prominent varieties of apples, may be interesting to those who do not possess a more elaborate work, or one wholly devoted to Fruits, and are inserted with a desire to increase the popular character of the Dictionary, and render it of increased interest to the mass of readers.
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