A handsome cider fruit from Virginia, which is also a very good table fruit from February till May. A very hardy, vigorous, and fruitful tree.
Fruit, of medium size, roundish-oblong. Skin very smooth and handsome, richly streaked with deep red and yellow. Stalk, short, deeply inserted. Calyx, in a round, rather deep basin. Flesh, yellow, firm, juicy and rich, becoming tender and sprightly in the spring.—[Down. Fr. Amer.] 144.
561. GLANZ REINETTE.
- Synonyme.—Tyroler Glanzreinette.
Fruit, about medium sized, two inches and a quarter broad, and two inches high; roundish, inclining to oblate. Skin, tender, smooth, varnished and shining, of a beautiful lemon-color when ripe, with a blush of delicate red on the side next the sun, which is wanting in fruit that is shaded; strewed with brown russety dots. Eye, half open, with very long green segments, set in a moderately deep and plaited basin, which is surrounded with a few bosses. Stalk, from three quarters to an inch long, inserted in a rather deep basin, which is lined with fine russet. Flesh, snow-white, very fine, marrowy, and juicy, with a rich, sugary, and vinous flavor.
A very beautiful waxen-like apple, of German origin; it is ripe in December, and continues in use during the spring.
The tree is a very strong grower, forming a beautiful round-headed tree; and is very fruitful. A valuable apple.—[Diel Kernobst.] xi. 78.
562. GLORY OF BOUGHTON.
A large culinary apple, of a round figure, yellow color; and in use during October.—[H. S. C.] n. 272.