A beautiful and handsome dessert apple, but only of second-rate quality; in use from November to April.
366. TURK’S CAP.—Hort.
Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, by two inches and a half high; roundish, and very much flattened, or oblate; irregularly and prominently ribbed. Skin, smooth, fine deep golden-yellow, covered with grey dots, and a few ramifications of russet, and with a brownish-red tinge on the side next the sun. Eye, large and open, placed in a deep, wide, and angular basin. Stalk, an inch long, deeply inserted in an angular cavity, which is lined with thick scaly russet, extending over the margin. Flesh, yellow, firm, crisp, and juicy, with a pleasant sub-acid, but slightly astringent flavor.
An excellent apple for culinary purposes, and also for the manufacture of cider; it is in use from November to Christmas.
367. UELLNER’S GOLD REINETTE.—Diel.
- Identification.—[Diel. Kernobst.] ii. B. 122. [Hort. Soc. Cat.]ed 3, n. 696.
Fruit, below medium size, two inches and a quarter broad, and two inches and an eighth high; oval. Skin, of a fine clear lemon-yellow, sprinkled with a little russet on the shaded side; but entirely covered on the side next the sun, with beautiful vermilion, which is strewed with cinnamon-colored russet. Eye, open, with short segments, set in a rather wide, round, even, and moderately deep basin. Stalk, slender, half-an-inch long, inserted in a deep cavity, which is lined with russet. Flesh, yellowish-white, firm, very juicy, rich and sugary, and with a fine aromatic flavor.
A most delicious dessert apple, of the very first quality; “small, but handsome and rich.” It is in use from January till May.
The tree is a free and excellent grower, and a great bearer.