A small dessert apple, of second-rate quality, it is of roundish shape, yellow color, embroidered with russety veins, and is in use from November till January.—[H. S. C.] n. 238.

538. ENGLISCHE GRANAT REINETTE.

Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters wide, and two inches and a half high; oblato-cylindrical. Skin, smooth, of a clear lemon-yellow ground color, but washed over two-thirds of the surface with beautiful crimson, which is indistinctly striped. Eye, pretty well closed with short segments, set in a pretty wide, and rather shallow basin, which is somewhat bossed. Stalk, thin and woody, three quarters of an inch long, inserted in a deep russety cavity, with one, and sometimes two fleshy protuberances. Flesh, yellowish-white, very fine, firm, crisp, and juicy, of a very rich, aromatic, vinous, and sugary flavor, very similar to the Golden Pippin.

A first-rate German dessert apple, ripe in December, and continues in use during the spring.

The tree is not a large grower, being only middle sized; but it is a great bearer.—[Diel Kernobst.] xi. 134.

539. EVERLASTING.

This is below the middle size, of a conical shape. The color is a striped green towards the footstalk, and red towards the eye, it is of third-rate quality; in use from January till May.—[Fors. Treat.] 101.