An excellent, though not a first-rate dessert apple, in use from January to March. Its only fault is the flesh being too dry.
The tree is hardy, but a weak and slender grower, and never attains a great size. It succeeds well on the paradise stock.
This is one of the varieties raised by Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq., of Downton Castle, Herefordshire, and which he obtained by impregnating the Golden Pippin, with the pollen of the Golden Harvey.
Fruit, small, about two inches and a quarter wide, and the same in height; oblong, slightly angular on the side, and ridged round the eye. Skin, dull yellowish green, with a few pale stripes of crimson, and considerably covered with patches and dots of thin grey russet on the shaded side; but marked with thin dull red, striped with deeper and brighter red, on the side exposed to the sun, and covered with numerous dark russety dots. Eye, small and closed, with erect, acute segments, set in a deep, round, and plaited basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a shallow cavity, which is lined with thin brown russet, strewed with silvery scales. Flesh, yellow, firm, not very juicy, but briskly flavored.
An apple of little merit, in use from October to February.
The only place where I have ever met with this variety, is in the neighbourhood of Odiham, in Hampshire.
IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 89.
SYNONYMES.--Winter Broading, _Hort. Trans._ vol. iv., p. 66. _Lind. Guide_, 57. Kentish Broading, _Ron. Pyr. Mal._ 47. Broading, _Acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._
Fruit, large, three inches and three quarters broad, and three inches high; roundish, broadest at the base, and considerably flattened at the ends, somewhat oblate. Skin, yellowish green in the shade, but tinged with red next the sun, interspersed with a few streaks of red, and covered in some places with patches of fine russet. Eye, large and open, set in a rather deep and angular basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a deep cavity. Flesh, yellowish white, firm, crisp, rich, juicy, and with a pleasant sub-acid flavor. An excellent culinary apple of the first quality, in use from November to Christmas.
The tree is a strong, healthy, and vigorous grower, and an excellent bearer.
IDENTIFICATION.--Fors. Treat. 95. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 90.