80 BRITISH l^JMOLOGY, ETC. 



113. ESOPUS SPITZENBURGH.— Coxe. 



Identification. — Coxe. View. 127. Down. Fr. Amer. 138. 



Synonymes. — ^sopus Spitzenberg, Hort. Soc. Cut. ed. 3, 790. ^sopus Spitzen- 

 burg, Ken. Amer. Or. 40. True Spitzenburgh, ace. Down. 



FiGUKE. — Down.Fr. Amer. 138. 



Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter wide, and three inches high ; 

 ovate, and regularly formed. Skin, almost entirely covered with clear 

 bright red, and marked with fawn-colored russety dots, except on a por- 

 tion of the shaded side, where it is yellow tinged and streaked with red. 

 Eye, small and closed, set in a moderately deep and undulating basin. 

 Stalk, slender, about an inch long, inserted in a wide, round, and deep 

 cavity. Flesh, yellow, crisp, juicy, richly, and briskly flavored. 



A most excellent dessert apple ; in use from November to February. 



This is a native of the United States, and is there considered one of 

 the best dessert apples. Along witji the Newtown Pippin it ranks as one 

 of the most productive and profitable orchard fruits, but like many, and 

 indeed almost all the best American varieties, it does not attain to that 

 degree of perfection in this country that it does in its native soil. The 

 tree is tender and subject to canker, and the fruit lacks that high flavor, 

 and peculiar richness which characterizes the imported specimens. It 

 was raised at Esopus, on the Hudson, where it is still grown to a large 

 extent. 



114. ESSEX PIPPIN.— Hort. 



Identification. — Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 239. 



Fruit, small ; round and flattened, somewhat oblate. Skin, smooth, 

 green at first, but becoming of a yellowish-green as it ripens, and with a 

 faint tinge of thin red where exposed to the sun. Eye, open, with long, 

 reflexed, acuminate segments, placed in a shallow basin. Stalk, three 

 quarters of an inch long, slender, inserted in a round and even cavity. 

 Flesh, yellowish, firm, and crisp, with a brisk, sugary, and rich flavor. 



A dessert apple of first-rate quality, nearly allied to the Golden Pip- 

 pin ; it is in use from October to February. 



115. FAIR MAID OF TAUNTON.— Hort. 



Identification. — Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, p. 1.5 



Fruit, small, two inches and a quarter wide, and an inch and three 

 quarters high ; ovato-oblate, and rather irregularly formed. Skin, 

 smooth and shining, thick and membranous, of a pale straw color, and 

 with a faint of red on the side exposed to the sun ; thickly strewed 

 all over with small russety dots. Eye, somewhat closed, with broad, flat 

 segments, which are reflexed at the tips, and set in a shallow and plaited 

 basin. Stalk, very short, inserted in a wide cavity, which is lined with 

 rough brown russet. Flesh, yellowish-white, tender, very juicy, sweet, 

 and though not richly yet pleasantly flavored. 



A dessert apple, but not of the first quality ; in use from November to 

 February. 



