- Identification.—[Hort. Trans.] vol. iv., p. 524. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 280. [Lind. Guide], 49.
Fruit, large; round, and narrowing towards the eye, handsome. Skin, smooth, clear bright yellow, without any blush of red, but a few small redish spots and small patches of russet. Eye, small, set in a round and deep basin, surrounded with plaits. Stalk, short, with a fleshy growth on one side of it, which connects it with the fruit. Flesh, yellow, tender, with a pleasant acid juice, and baking of a clear amber color, perfectly melting, with a rich acidity.
A valuable culinary apple; in use from September to December.
This was first brought into notice by Sir Thomas Harr, of Stowe Hall, Norfolk, whose gardener procured it from a tree supposed to be the original, in an old orchard at Downham, and communicated it to the Horticultural Society of London, in 1820.
147. GOLDEN PEARMAIN.—Fors.
- Identification.—[Fors. Treat.] 103. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 542. [Lind. Guide], 70
- Synonyme.—Ruckman’s Pearmain, [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 1, 755.
- Figure.—[Ron. Pyr. Mal.] pl. xxiii. f. 6.
Fruit, medium sized, about two inches and a half in diameter, and the same in height; abrupt pearmain-shaped, irregularly ribbed on the sides, and uneven at the apex. Skin, pale yellow, strewed with patches of russet, and covered with minute russety dots on the shaded side; but deep redish orange, streaked with deeper color, and strewed with minute russety dots on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, large and open, with reflexed segments, and set in a wide, deep, and angular basin. Stalk, slender, three quarters of an inch long, and obliquely inserted, with frequently a fleshy protuberance on one side of it, in a rather shallow cavity, which is lined with green russet. Flesh, yellowish, firm, crisp, very juicy, sweet, and lacking acidity, which gives it a sickly flavor.
An apple of second-rate quality, suitable either for culinary purposes or the dessert; in use from November to March.
The tree is an upright grower and a free bearer, but requires to be grown in good soil.
In America this is esteemed as a cider apple.