Fruit, medium sized; roundish, and flattened at both ends. Skin, pale greenish-yellow, streaked with dull red on the shaded side; and bright dark crimson, strewed with grey dots, and small patches of russet on the side next the sun, and extending almost over the whole surface. Eye, large, partially open, with broad connivent segments, which are reflexed at the tips, and set in a shallow and plaited basin. Stalk, a quarter of an inch long, inserted in a wide and shallow cavity. Flesh, yellowish-white, firm, crisp, brisk, sugary, and pleasantly flavored.
An excellent apple, either for the dessert or culinary purposes; it is in use from November to February.
The tree is very hardy and a great bearer. It is only of late years that it has been brought into general cultivation, and now it is grown very extensively by the London market gardeners, for the supply of Covent Garden Market.
120. FEDERAL PEARMAIN.—Hort.
- Identification.—[Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 540.
Fruit, below medium size; pearmain-shaped. Skin, yellowish on the shaded side; with a little red, and a few dark red streaks on the side next the sun; the whole thickly covered with large russety dots, and a few patches of russet. Eye, set in a pretty deep and ribbed basin. Stalk, about half-an-inch long, inserted in a funnel-shaped and russety cavity. Flesh, fine and delicate, very juicy, with a rich, sugary, and vinous flavor.
A dessert apple of first-rate quality; ripe in December, and continues till March.
121. FENOUILLET GRIS.—Duh.
- Identification.—[Duh. Arb. Fruit.] i. 287. t. 5. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 246. [Lind. Guide], 88. [Down. Fr. Amer.] 110. [Diel Kernobst.] iv. 117. [Quint. Inst.] i. 202.
- Synonymes.—Fenouillet, [Knoop Pom.] 52. t. ix. Fenellet, [Lang. Pom.] 134, t. lxxv. f. 1. Fenouillet, d’Or Gros, acc. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] Gros Fenouillet acc. Calvel. Petit Fenouillet, Ibid. Pomme d’Anis, acc. Merlet. Anis, [Duh. Arb. Fruit.] i. 287. George de Pigeon, acc. Knoop. 130. Graue Fenchelapfel, [Diel Kernobst.] iv. 117. Grauer Fenchelapfel. Anisapfel, [Mayer Pom. Franc.] t. xxxii. f. 55. Winter Anisreinette, [Christ Handb.] No. 116.
- Figure.—[Nois. Jard. Fr.] ed. 2, pl. 99. [Poit. et Turp.] 151.
Fruit, small, about two inches and a quarter broad, and the same in height; roundish-ovate, and broadest at the base. Skin, of a fine deep yellow color, like a Golden Pippin, but almost entirely covered with russet, which is brown on the shaded side, and grey where exposed to the sun, mixed with a tinge of redish brown. Eye, small and open, set in a round, wide, and rather deep basin. Stalk, half-an-inch long, inserted in a rather shallow cavity. Flesh, yellowish-white, tender, crisp, rich, sugary, and aromatic, partaking much of the flavor of Anise—hence the origin of one of the synonymes.