18. BARTON’S INCOMPARABLE.—Hort.
- Identification.—[Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 352?
Fruit, below medium size; in shape somewhat like a Golden Knob, ovate or conical, with prominent ribs on the sides, which terminate in five ridges round the eye. Skin, yellowish green, covered with patches of pale brown russet, thickly strewed with large russety freckles, like the Barcelona Pearmain, and tinged with orange next the sun. Eye, small, partially open, with reflexed segments, set in a narrow and angular basin. Stalk, nearly three quarters of an inch long, inserted in a narrow and round cavity. Flesh, yellowish white, tender, crisp, brittle, very juicy, and when eaten is quite a mouthful of lively, vinous juice.
A dessert apple of the highest excellence, in use from October to February.
The tree is a good and healthy grower, attains a considerable size, and is an excellent bearer.
This variety seems to be but little known, and considering its excellence rarely cultivated. I am not aware that it exists in any of the nurseries, or that it was at any period extensively propagated. The only place where I ever met with it was, in the private garden of the late Mr. Lee, of Hammersmith, whence I procured grafts from a tree in the last stage of decay.
19. BAXTER’S PEARMAIN.—Lind.
- Identification.—G. Lind. in [Hort. Trans.] vol. iv., p. 67. [Lind. Guide], 62. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 533.