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somewhat angular. Skin, greenish-yellow, dotted with green and white 

 specks, and marked with ramifications of russet about the apex. Eye, 

 small, very slightly depressed, and surrounded with several prominent 

 plaits. Stalk, short and slender, inserted in an uneven and deep cavity. 

 Flesh, white, firm, crisp, juicy, pleasantly acid, and perfumed. 



A culinary apple of first-rate quality, well-known and extensively cul- 

 tivated in Norfolk ; it is in use from October to January. 



The tree is large, hardy, and a great bearer. 



In the Guide to the Orchard, it is said, " When baked in an oven 

 which is not too hot, these apples are most excellent ; they become 

 sugary, and will keep a week or ten days, furnishing for the dessert a 

 highly flavored sweetmeat." 



This is one of the oldest English apples. It is first mentioned l)y 

 Parkinson as " a faire, greate, goodly apple ; and very well rellished." 

 Ralph Austen calls it " a very choice fruit, and the trees beare well." 

 Indeed it is noticed by almost all the early authors. According to Ray 

 it is named in honor of Dr. Gabriel Harvey, of Cambridge, " Pomum 

 Harveianum ab inventore Gabriele Harveio Doctore nomen sortitum 

 Cantabrigian sua; deliciae." 



168. HARVEY'S PIPPIN.— Hort. 



Identification. — Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, p. 19. 



Synonyme. — Dredge's Beauty of Wilts, ace. Hort. Soc. Cat. Bog. Fr. Cult. 53. 



Fruit, medium sized ; roundish. Skin, yellow on the shaded side, but 

 washed with fine red on the side next the sun, and marked with crimson 

 dots. Flesh, firm, crisp, juicy, and richly flavored. 



An excellent and useful apple either for culinary purposes or dessert 

 use ; it is in season from December to February. 



The tree is a free grower and an excellent bearer ; it attains above 

 the middle size, and may be grown either as an open dwarf, or an espa- 

 lier, when grafted on the paradise stock. 



169. HARVEY'S WILTSHIRE DEFIANCE.— H. 



Fruit, of the largest size ; conical, and very handsomely shaped, dis- 

 tinctly five-sided, having five prominent and acute angles descending 

 from the apex, till they are lost in the base. Skin, fine deep sulphur yel- 

 low ; of a deeper shade on the side which is exposed to the sun, and 

 covered all over with minute russety dots, with here and there ramifying 

 patches of russet. Eye, pretty large and open, with short ragged seg- 

 ments, and set in a rather shallow and angular basin. Stalk, very short, 

 about half-an-inch long, and not extending beyond the base, inserted in 

 a round and deep cavity, lined with rough scaly russet, which branches 

 out over a portion of the base. Flesh, yellowish, firm, crisp, and juicy, 

 sugary, vinous, and richly flavored. Core, very small for the size of the 

 apple. 



A very handsome and most desirable apple, being of first-rate quality, 

 either as a dessert or culinary fruit ; it is in use from the end of Octo- 

 ber to the beginning of January. 



