40 BEITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. 



and flesh, and blood. He can remember the time when, fifty years ago, 

 he was a boy, and the tree a fine, full-bearing stem, full of bud, and 

 blossom, and fruit, and thousands thronged from all parts to gaze on its 

 ruddy, ripening, orange burden ; then gardeners came in the spring-tide 

 to select the much coveted scions, and to hear the tale of his horticul- 

 tural child and sapling, from the lips of the son of the white-haired 

 Kempster. But nearly a century has elapsed since Kempster fell, like a 

 ripened fruit, and was gathered to his lathers. He lived in a narrow 

 cottage garden in Old Woodstock, a plain, practical, laboring man ; and 

 in the midst of his bees and flowers around him, and in his " glorious 

 pride," in the midst of his little garden, he realized Virgil's dream of 

 the old Corycian : — " Et regum equabat opes animis." 



The provincial name for this apple is still " Kemjjster' s Pippin,^^ a 

 lasting monumental tribute, and inscription, to him who first planted the 

 kernel from whence it sprang." 



36. BOROVITSKY.— Hort. 



Identification. — Hort Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 74. Lind Guide, 3. Down. Fr, 

 Amer. 70. 



Figure. — Pom. Mag. t. 10. 



Fruit, medium sized, two inches high, and about the same in width ; 

 roundish and slightly angular. Skin, pale green strewed with silvery 

 russet scales on the shaded side ; and colored with bright red, which is 

 striped with deeper red on the side next the sun. Eye, set in a wide 

 and plaited basin. Stalk, an inch long, deeply inserted in a rather wide 

 cavity. Flesh, white, firm, brisk, juicy, and sugary. 



An excellent early dessert apple, ripe in the middle of August. 



This was sent from the Taurida Gardens, near St. Petersburg, to the 

 London Horticultural Society in 1824. 



37. BORSDORFFER.— Knoop. 



Identification — Knoop. Pom. t. x. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed, 3, n. 73. Down. Fr 

 Amer. 99. 



SvNONYMES. — Porstorffer, Cord. Hist. Eeinette Batarde, Riv. et Muul. Met/i. 192. 

 Borstorf, Knoop. Povi. 56. BorstorfF Hative, Ibid. 129. BorstorfF a long queue, 

 Ibid. 129. Bursdotr, or Queen's Apple, Fom. Treat, ed. 3, 15, Red Borsdorf- 

 fer, Willich Bom. Encyc. Borsdorff", Lind. Guide, 39. Postophe d'Hiver, Bon 

 Jard. 1843. p. 512. Pomnie de procliaiu, ^cc. l>/e/. TsTerwoi.v^. Eeinette d'Alle- 

 raague, Ibid. Blanche de Leipsic, Ace. Knoop. Pom. Eeinette de Misnie, Ace. 

 Hort. Soc. Cat. Grand Bohemian Borsdorfter, Ibid. Edler WinterborstorfFer, 

 Diet. Kernobst. II. 80. Edel Wintcrborsdoifer, Ditt. Handb. I. 372. Witte 

 Leipziger, Ace. Knoop. Pom. Maschanzker, Ace. Did Kernobst. Weiner Mas- 

 ehanzkerl, Baum. Cat. 1850. Winter Borsdorfl'er, Ace. Hort. Soc. Cat. Garret 

 Pippin, Ibid. King, Ibid. King George, Ibid. King George the Third, Eon. 

 Pyr. Mai. 26. 



Figures. — Knoop. Pom. t. x. Ron. Pyr. Mai. pi. xiii. f. 8. 



Fruit, below medium size ; roundish oblate, rather narrower at the apex 

 than the base, handsomely and regularly formed, without ribs or other 



