| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The Brentford Project (Ballymore) and the new street names! | |
| Posted by: | Tim Henderson | |
| Date/Time: | 13/12/22 20:57:00 |
| Hollandbury and Lewis('s Incomparable) were new to me as apple varieties but they are indeed in Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis. For Hollandbury, Ronalds wrote "A very large and beautiful sauce apple; tankard-shaped with four or five slightly projecting ribs; both eye and stalk rather deeply seated in a narrow cavity.it is of a straw colour, three-fourths covered with unmixed crimson. The fruit has a very elegant appearance on the tree for some time before gathering, but liable, from its weight, to be blown down in tempestuous weather. The tree is diffuse in its growth, and the leaves unusually small for a large sort; it is a good bearer,and in use from October till Christmas." The online version (with coloured plates) is available at https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00010106/00001/images |