The specific gravity of its juice is 1074.
This is a very old variety, and is no doubt the “Orange Apple” of Ray and Worlidge. According to Mr. Knight, it is by some supposed to have been introduced from Normandy to the Isle of Wight, where it was first planted in the garden at Wrexall Cottage, near the Undercliff, where it was growing in 1817. There are several other varieties of apples known by the name of “Orange” and “Orange Pippin,” but they are all very inferior to this.
The tree does not attain a large size, but is hardy, healthy, and an excellent bearer. It succeeds well when grafted on the paradise stock, and grown as an open dwarf, or an espalier.
190. ISLEWORTH CRAB.—Hort.
- Synonyme.—Brentford Crab, acc. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, p. 21.
Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters wide, by the same in height; conical. Skin, smooth, of a pale yellow color, with a deeper tinge where exposed to the sun, and covered with small redish-brown dots. Eye, small and open, with reflexed segments, set in a round and narrow basin. Stalk, slender, inserted in a deep, round, and even cavity. Flesh, yellowish-white, crisp, sweet, juicy, and pleasantly flavored.
A pretty good culinary apple of second-rate quality; in use during October; but scarcely worth cultivation.
191. JOANNETING.—H.
- Synonymes.—Jennetting, Coles’ Adam in Eden, 257. Juniting, [Rea Pom.] 209. Jeniting, [Worl. Vin.] 161. Ginetting or Juneting, [Raii Hist.] ii. 1447, 1. Juneting, or Jenneting, [Switz. Fr. Gard.] 134. Genneting, [Lang. Pom.] t. lxxiv. f. 2. Juneting, [Fors. Treat.] 109. Early Jenneting, or June-eating, [Aber. Dict.] White Juneating, [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 374. [Down. Fr. Amer.] 78. Juneating, [Lind. Guide], 4. [Rog. Fr. Cult.] 27. Owen’s Golden Beauty, [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 1, 717. Primiting, in Kent and Sussex.
- Figure.—[Ron. Pyr. Mal.] pl. i. f. 3.
