It is much grown in the Berkshire orchards.
126. FLOWER OF KENT.—Park.
- Identification.—[Park. Par.] 587. [Raii Hist.] ii. 1448. [Fors. Treat.] 101. [Lind Guide], 14. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 254. [Down. Fr. Amer.] 83. [Rog. Fr. Cult.] 37.
- Figure.—[Ron. Pyr. Mal.] pl. xv. f. 2.
Fruit, large; roundish, and considerably flattened, with obtuse angles on the sides, which extend into the basin of the eye, where they form prominent knobs on the apex. Skin, greenish-yellow, thickly strewed with green dots on the shaded side; but next the sun, dull red marked with patches and streaks of livelier red, and dotted with light grey dots. Eye, large and open, with broad reflexed segments, and placed in a large angular basin, which is marked with russet. Stalk, an inch long, thick and strong, deeply set in an angular cavity. Flesh, greenish-white, firm, crisp, and juicy, with a pleasant and briskly acid flavor.
A culinary apple of first-rate quality; in use from November to January.
The tree is a pretty good bearer, one of the strongest and most vigorous growers, and consequently more suitable for the orchard than the fruit garden.
This is a very old variety, being mentioned by Parkinson, Leonard Meager, and Ray, but there is no notice of it in the works of any subsequent writer till the publication of Forsyth’s Treatise.
127. FLUSHING SPITZENBURGH.—Down.
- Identification.—[Down. Fr. Amer.] 139.