313. RYMER.—Hort.
- Identification.—[Hort. Trans.] vol. iii. p. 329. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 358. [Lind. Guide], 33.
- Synonymes.—Caldwell, [Hort. Soc. Cat.]ed i. 124. Green Cossings, Ibid. 411. Newbold’s Duke of York, Ibid. 286. Cordwall
- Figure.—[Ron. Pyr. Mal.] pl. xli. f. 2.
Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter wide, and two inches and three quarters high; roundish, and flattened, with five obscure ribs, on the sides, extending into the basin of the eye. Skin, smooth, thinly strewed with redish-brown dots, and a few faint streaks of pale red on the shaded side; and of a beautiful deep red, covered with yellowish-grey dots, on the side next the sun. Eye, open, with broad reflexed segments, set in a round and moderately deep basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a round and deep cavity, lined with rough russet, which extends in ramifications over the base. Flesh, yellowish, tender, and pleasantly sub-acid.
A good culinary apple, in use from October to Christmas.
314. SACK AND SUGAR.—Hort.
- Identification.—[Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 761. [Rog. Fr. Cult.] 41.
- Figure.—[Ron. Pyr. Mal.] pl. i. f. 1.
Fruit, below medium size, two inches and a quarter wide, and an inch and three quarters high; roundish, inclining to oval, with prominent ridges round the eye. Skin, pale yellow. Eye, large, and open with erect segments, and rather deeply placed in a round, wide, and angular basin. Flesh, white, soft, tender, very juicy, sugary, and pleasantly flavored.
A good early apple, either for culinary purposes or the dessert; ripe in the end of July and beginning of August, and continuing during September.
The tree is a free and vigorous grower, and an immense bearer, so much so, as to be injurious to the crop of the following year.
This apple was raised nearly half a century ago, by Mr. Morris, a market gardener, at Brentford, and is sometimes met with under the name of Morris’s Sack and Sugar.