389. WINTER GREENING.—Aber.
- Identification.—[Aber. Gard. Dict.]
- Synonymes.—French Crab, [Fors. Treat.] 102. Easter Pippin, [Lind. Guide], 45. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 233. [Down. Fr. Amer.] 109. Claremont Pippin, acc. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] Ironstone Pippin, Ibid. Young’s Long Keeping, Ibid. John Apple, [Rog. Fr. Cult.]
- Figures.—[Brook. Pom. Brit.], pl. xciii. f. 1. [Ron. Pyr. Mal.] pl. xlii. f. 3.
Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters wide, and two inches and a quarter high; roundish, widest at the middle, and narrowing towards the crown, round which are a few small ridges. Skin, smooth and shining, of a dark lively green, strewed with minute russety dots; and with a blush of dull red where exposed to the sun. Eye, small and closed, set in a shallow and plaited basin. Stalk, half-an-inch long, inserted in a round cavity, which is lined with russet. Flesh, greenish, very close in texture, brittle and juicy, with a very poignant and pleasant acid.
A culinary apple of first-rate quality, which comes into use in November, and has been known to last under favorable circumstances, for two years. Dry sand is a good article to preserve it in.
The tree is very hardy, a free and good grower, and an abundant bearer.
I have not adopted here, the nomenclature of the Horticultural Society’s Catalogue, for two reasons. First, because Winter Greening is the previous name, and, so far as I can find, the original one. It is also very applicable, and not subject to the same objection which Mr. Lindley has to French Crab. Second, because there is already in the Horticultural Society’s Catalogue, the “White Easter”—the “Paasch Appel,” of Knoop—and the two names being so similar, may tend to confusion, a result of already too frequent occurrence, and most desirable to be avoided. The name Winter Greening is also more descriptive.
390. WINTER LADING.—H.
Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters wide, at the middle, and two inches and a half high; roundish, and narrowing towards the crown, irregularly formed, sometimes with one prominent angle on one side. Skin, bright green, marked with patches and dots of thin russet. Eye, closed, set in an angular basin. Stalk three quarters of an inch long, curved, inserted in a deep, round cavity. Flesh, greenish-white, juicy, sweet, very tender, and delicate, with a pleasant acid.
An excellent sauce apple; in use from October to Christmas. It is grown in the north-eastern parts of Sussex, about Heathfield.