[B] Armstrong’s Gaelic Dictionary.
[C] Owen’s Dictionary of the Welch Language.
[D] Lib. ii. cap. 8.
[E] Duncumb’s History of Herefordshire, vol. 1, p. 187.
[F] Rudder’s History of Gloucestershire, App. liii., No. xxxv.
[G] Rudder’s History of Gloucestershire, App. xxvii., No. xix.
[H] Blomefield’s History of Norfolk, vol. xi., p. 242.
[CLASSIFICATION OF APPLES.]
A great desideratum in pomological science is, a system of classification for the apple, founded on characters which are at once permanent and well defined. The Germans have been most assiduous in endeavoring to attain this object, and many systems have been suggested, of which those of Manger, Sickler, Christ, and Diel, are most generally known. But it is to Diel that the greatest merit is due, for having produced a system, which, though far from perfect, is greatly in advance of any which had hitherto been produced; and which has been universally adopted by all the German pomologists. In 1847, my friend Dochnahl, an eminent and assiduous pomologist, published a system, based upon that of Diel, of which it is a modification, and which possesses such advantages over its type, as to be more easily reduced to practise.