An excellent dessert apple, and when well ripened is considered of first-rate quality by those who are partial to its peculiar flavor. It is in season from December to March, and at an advanced period becomes woolly.
The tree is a small and slender grower; but an abundant bearer. It requires a rich soil and warm situation, and succeeds well as a dwarf on the paradise stock.
[122. FENOUILLET JAUNE.]—Duh.
- Identification.—[Duh. Arb. Fruit.] i. 290. [Down. Fr. Amer.] 109. [Bon. Jard.]
- Synonymes.—Drap d’Or, [Knoop Pom.] 59. Caracter Appel, Ibid. t. x. Pomme de Caractère, Ibid. 130. Reinette Drap d’Or, Ibid. 130. Embroidered Pippin, [Lind Guide], 46.
- Figure.—[Jard. Fruit.] ed. 2, pl. 105.
Fruit, small, two inches and a quarter broad, and an inch and three quarters high; roundish, flattened, and broadest at the base; even and regularly formed. Skin, fine bright yellow, marked with reticulations of pale brown russet. Eye, small and closed, set in a wide and pretty deep basin. Stalk, short and stout, inserted in a deep and funnel-shaped cavity. Flesh, white, firm, sugary, and richly perfumed.
A delicious little dessert apple; in use from December to April.
The tree is a free grower, quite hardy, and an excellent bearer; but requires a light and warm soil.
According to Knoop, this apple is called Pomme de Caractère, from the linear tracings of russet with which it is covered, being so disposed as to give it the appearance of being marked with letters or characters.
[123. FENOUILLET ROUGE.]—Duh.
- Identification—[Duh. Arb. Fruit], i. 289. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 247. [Lind. Guide], 47. [Down. Fr. Amer.] 109. [Diel Kernobst.] iii. 199.
- Synonymes.—Courtpendû, [Quint. Inst.] i. 202. Reinette Courtpendû, [Knoop Pom.] 129. Courtpendû Gris, Ibid. 60. Reinette de Goslinga, Ibid. 129. Carpendy, [Gibs. Fr. Gard.] 355. Petit Courtpendu Gris, [Inst. Arb. Fr.] 154. Bardin, [Schab. Prat.] ii. 88. Pomme de Bardin, [Riv. et Moul. Meth.] 191. Curtipendula Minora, [Bauh. Hist.] i. 23. Rothe Fenchelapfel, [Diel Kernobst.] iii. 199. Reinette Grise de Champagne, acc. [Bret. Ecole].
- Figure.—[Jard. Fruit.] ed. 2, pl. 99. [Mayer Pom. Franc.] tab. xxxiii. [Poit. et Turp.] pl. 67.