English Apples - Marriage-Maker
Extract from HOGG:
MARRIAGE-MAKER.
Fruit, small, about two inches and a
quarter wide, and two inches high ; roundish, and somewhat depressed,
even and regular in its outline. Skin, smooth, entirely crimson, even
on the shaded side. Eye, small, with erect convergent segments, set
in a basin, which is slightly plaited. Stamens, marginal ; tube, conical.
Stalk, short and slender, placed in a shallow cavity. Flesh, yellowish,
slightly tinged with red at the eye and under the skin, pleasantly
flavoured. Cells, obovate ; axile, open.
A very showy dessert apple, resembling Scarlet Pearmain ; in use
from October till Christmas. It was sent me by Messrs. Harrison, of
Leicester.
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