An excellent dessert apple, of first-rate quality. In use from Christmas to April.
This variety was raised by Thomas Hunt, Esq., of Stratford-on-Avon, from the seed of Hunt’s Duke of Gloucester, and named in honor of the poet Shakespere.
327. SHEEP’S NOSE.—Hort.
- Synonymes.—Bullock’s Pippin, [Coxe View], 125. Long Tom, Ibid.
Fruit, large, about three inches and a half long, and about three inches wide; conical, narrowing gradually to the crown, which is considerably higher on one side than the other; generally with ten ribs on the sides. Skin, smooth, yellow, and strewed with a few russety dots. Eye, small, set in a deep, plaited basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a deep round, and russety cavity. Flesh, yellowish-white, tender, very juicy, and sweet.
A very good variety for culinary purposes; but chiefly used as a cider apple in Somersetshire, where it is much grown for that purpose.
328. SHEPHERD’S FAME.—Hort.
Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter wide, and two inches and a half high; obtuse-ovate, broad and flattened at the base, narrowing towards the eye, with five prominent ribs on the sides, and in every respect, very much resembling a small specimen of Emperor Alexander. Skin, smooth, pale straw-yellow, marked with faint broken patches of crimson, on the shaded side; but streaked with yellow and bright crimson, on the side next the sun. Eye, open, with short, stunted segments, placed in a deep, angular, and plaited basin. Stalk, short, imbedded in a round, funnel-shaped cavity. Flesh, yellowish, soft, and tender, transparent, sweet, and briskly flavored, but rather dry.
An apple of very ordinary quality, in use from October to March.