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PEASGOODS NONESUCH APPLE. 



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There is belonging to the same genus Trichinium^ another sjiecies which I 

 remember being much struck with years ago, in looking over a set of dried 

 Australian plants ; it is called T. alopecuroideum^ and in it the hairs are of a 

 sulphur-yellow and the flowers crimson, approaching to scarlet, and deeper than 

 in the subject of my notice. Let us hope that ere long we shall have the 

 pleasure of seeing it in a living state, as it is likely to prove a worthy rival to 

 the now more familiar plant. — Jas. C. Niven, Hull Botanic Garden. 



PEASGOOD'S NONESUCH APPLE. 



'HIS new Apple appears to have originated in the garden of Mr. Peasgood^ 

 a town councillor of Stamford, the seed having been planted by Mrs. 

 Peasgood. Some doubts have been expressed as to its being sufficiently 

 T<^ distinct from the Blenheim Pippin, but they have been fully met by the 

 counter-opinions of such well-known authorities as Mr. W. Ingram, of Belvoir, 

 Mr. Gilbert, of Burghley, and Mr. Laxton, of Stamford. We have to thank Dr. 

 Hogg for the accompanying woodcut and description, from the Gardener s 

 Year-Book for 1873 : — 



PEASGOOD'S Nonesuch Apple. 

 " This handsome Apple was presented before the Fruit Committee of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, of September 18 [1872], and received a First-class 

 Certificate. It is one of the most handsome autumn Apples in cultivation. The 

 fruit is very like a large Nonesuch, and not unlike a well-grown and highly- 

 coloured Blenheim Pippin, It is above the medium size, roundish, and somewhat 

 oblate. The skin is yellow, overspread on the sunny side with red, which is 



