THE APPLE. ITS VARIETIES. 



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set, and covered with minute russety dots on the shaded side ; but deep 

 redish orange, streaked with deeper color, and strewed with minute rus- 

 sety dots on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, large and open, with 

 reflexed segments, and set in a wide, deep, and angular basin. Stalk, 

 slender, three quarters of an inch long, and obliquely inserted, with f^e- 

 quently a fleshy protuberance on one side of it, in a rather shallow cavity, 

 which is lined with green russet. Flesh, yellowish, firm, crisp, very juicy, 

 sweet, and lacking acidity, which gives it a sickly flavor. 



An apple of second-rate quality, suitable either for culinary purposes 

 or the dessert ; in use fi-om November to March. 



The tree is an upright grower and a free bearer, but requires to be 

 grown in good soil. 



In America this is esteemed as a cider apple. 



148. GOLDEN PIPPIN.— Evelyn. 



Idkntification. — Evelyn Pom. Rail Hist. ii. 1447. Switz. Fr. Gard. 135. 

 Pom. Heref. Lind. Guide, 16. Hurt. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 281. Down. Fr. 

 Amcr. 112. 



Synonymes. — Small Golding Pippin, or Bayford, Meag. Eng. Gard. 85. Barford 

 Pippin, ace. Rail Hist. Russet Golden Pippin, Lang. Pom. 130, t. Ixxix. f. 5. 

 Balgown Pippin, Leslie and Anders. Cat. English Reinette, ace. West. Univ. 

 Bot. iv. 139. Old Golden Pippin, Rog. Fr. Cult. 98. English Golden Pippin, 

 Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1, n. 382. London Golden Pippin, Ibid. 387. Herefordshire 

 Golden Pippin, Ibid. 384. Milton Golden Pippin, Ibid. 388. Wartcr's Golden 

 Pippin, Ibid. 394. Balgone Pipjnn, Ibid. 35. Balgnne Golden Pippin, ace. Ibid. 

 ed. 3. Bayfordbury, ace. Ibid. ed. 3. American Plate, Ron. Pyr. Mai. 63, 

 pi. xxxii. f. 2. Guolden Peppins, Quint. List. i. 202. Reinette d'Angleterre, 

 Schab. Prat. ii. 88 Pepin d'Or, Knoop Pom. 54, tab. ix. Pomme d'Or, Duh. Arb. 

 Fruit, i. 292, t. 7. Gelbe Englische Pipe, Meyen Baumsch. No. 14. Gold 

 Pepping, Diel Kernobst. ii. 69. Peppin d'Or, Knoop. Pom. tab. ix. Goud Pep- 

 ping, /6/c?. 131. Goudeling's Pepping, /Ziid Gulden Pipping, 7i('rf. Engelsche 

 G^)ud Pepping, Ibid. Litle Pepping, Ibid. Koenings Peppeling, Hort. Soc. 

 Cat. ed. ], n. 527. 



FiGURES.^Pom. Heref. t. 2. Hook. Pom. Lond. Ron. Pyr. Mai. pi. xviii. f. 5. 

 Jard. Fruit, ed. 2, pi. 108. 



Fruit, small ; roundish, inclining to oblong, regularly and handsomely 



shaped, Avithout inequalities 

 or angles on the sides. Skin, 

 rich yellow, assuming a deep 

 golden tinge when perfectly 

 ripe, with a deeper tinge 

 where it has been exposed 

 to the sun ; the whole surface 

 is strewed with russety dots, 

 which are largest on the 

 sunny side, and intermixed 

 with these are numerous em- 

 bedded pearly specks. Eye, 

 small and open, with long 

 segments, placed in a shal- 

 low, smooth, and even basin. 

 Stalk, from half-an-inch to an 

 inch in length, inserted in a 



