75. COE’S GOLDEN DROP.—Hort.
- Identification.—[Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 274.
Fruit, small, conical, even, and regularly shaped. Skin, green at first, but changing as it ripens to yellow, with a few large crimson spots, on the side exposed to the sun, and marked with small patches of thin delicate russet. Eye, small and open, even with the surface, and surrounded with a few shallow plaits. Stalk, three quarters of an inch long, inserted in a small, and shallow depression, which, together with the base, is entirely covered with russet. Flesh, greenish-yellow, firm, crisp, and very juicy, brisk, sugary, and vinous.
A delicious little dessert apple of the first quality, in use from November to May.
The tree is hardy, a free upright grower, and a good bearer. It attains about the middle size. If grafted on the paradise stock it is well suited for espaliers, or growing as an open dwarf.
This excellent variety was introduced to notice by Gervase Coe, of Bury St. Edmonds, who raised the Golden Drop Plum. It has been said that it is a very old variety, which has existed for many years in some Essex orchards, but was propagated by Coe as a seedling of his own.
76. COLE.—Hort.
- Identification.—[Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 172. [Lind. Guide], 13. [Down. Fr. Amer.] 71.
- Synonyme.—Scarlet Perfume, acc. [Hort. Soc. Cat.]
- Figure.—[Pom. Mag.] t. 104. [Ron. Pyr. Mal.] pl. xxxvii. f. 3.
Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter broad, and two and a half high; roundish, considerably flattened, almost oblate, and angular on the sides. Skin, yellowish, almost entirely covered with deep crimson, and slightly marked with russet. Eye, large and closed, set in a wide and open basin. Stalk, long, covered with down, and inserted in a close narrow cavity, with a fleshy prominence on one side of it. Flesh, white, firm, juicy, and sweet, with a rich, brisk, and pleasant flavor.