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BRITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. 



This variety is supposed to have been raised by a person of the name 

 of Shepherd, at Uclifield, in Sussex, and has for many years been exten- 

 sively cultivated in that county, under the names o^ Shepherd's Seedling, 

 and Shepherd's Pippin, two names by which it is there most generally 

 known. Some years ago a Mr. Brooker, of Alfriston, near Hailsham, 

 in Sussex, sent specimens of the fruit to the London Horticultural 

 Society, by whom, being unknown, it was called the Alfriston, a name 

 by which it is now generally known, except in its native county. By 

 some it is erroneously called the Baltimore and Newtown Pippin. 



4. AMERICAN FALL PIPPIN.— H. 



Si'NONYME. — Fall Pippin, Coxe. Vietv, 109, Down. Fr. Amer. 84. 



Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter wide, and two inches and 

 three quarters high ; roundish, ribbed on the sides, and almost the same 

 width at the apex as the base. Skin, yellow tinged with green, and 

 strewed with brown dots on the shaded side ; but with a tinge of brown, 

 and numerous embedded pearly specks on the side next the sun. Eye, 

 large and open, M'ith broad, flat segments, set in a wide, deep, and 

 rather angular basin. Stalk, three quarters of an inch long, inserted in 

 a rather shallow cavity, which is slightly marked with russet. Flesh, yel- 

 lowish, slightly tinged with green at the margin, tender, juicy, sugary, 

 slightly perfumed, and pleasantly flavoured. 



Unlike the majority of American Apples, this comes to great perfec- 

 tion in this country, and is a valuable and first-rate culinary apple. It 

 is ripe in October and will last till Christmas. 



