THE APPLE. ITS VAKTETIES. ]4:3 



This variety was raised by Mr. William Pleasance, a nurseryman at 

 Barnwell, near Cambridge, and was communicated by him to the London 

 Horticultural Society, in 1821. It belongs to the Nonpareil family, and 

 is valuable as a late winter apple. 



241. NEWTOWN PIPPIN.— Hort. 



Identification. — Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. 458. Liml. Guide, 54. Down. Fr. 

 Amer. 118. Fors. Treat. 1 15. Rog. Fr. Cult. 95. 



Synontmes. — Large Yellow Newton Pippin, Core View, 142. American New- 

 town Pippin, ace. Hort. Sue. Cat. Green Newtown Pippin, Hort. Soe. Cat. 

 ed. 1, 636. Large Newtown Pippin, Ibid. 638. Petersburgh Pippin, Ibid. 780. 

 Green Winter Pippin, arc. Down. Fr. Amer. Newton Pippin, Aber. Diet. Neu- 

 jorker Reinette, Diel. Kernobst. v. 152. 



FiGCKES.— Brook. Pom. Brit. pi. xciii. f. 6. Ron. Pyr. Mai. pi. xvii. f. 1. 



Fruit, medium sized ; roundish, broadest at the base, with broad ob- 

 scure ribs extending to the apex, which give it an irregularity in its out- 

 line. Skin, at first dull green, but changing as it ripens to a fine olive- 

 green, or greenish-yellow, with a redish-brown tinge next the sun, and 

 dotted all over with small grey russety dots. Eye, small and closed, set 

 in a small and rather shallow basin. Stalk, half-an-inch long, slender, 

 and inserted all its length, in a deep, round cavity lined with delicate 

 russet, which extends over a portion of the base. FJesh, yellowish- white 

 tinged with green, firm, crisp, very juicy, with a rich, and highly aromatic 

 flavor. 



A dessert apple, which, when in perfection, is not to be surpassed. It 

 is in use from December to April. This description being taken from an 

 imported specimen, it must not be expected that fruit grown in this 

 country, will attain the same degree of perfection ; for like most of the 

 best American apples, it does not succeed in this climate. Even with the 

 protection of a wall, and in the most favorable situation, it does not 

 possess that peculiarly rich aroma, which characterizes the imported fruit. 



The tree is a slender, and slow grower, and is always distinguished, 

 even in its young state, by the roughness of its bark. It prefers a strong, 

 rich, and genial soil, and, according to Coxe, does not arrive at maturity 

 till 20 or 25 years old. 



This is an old American apple. It originated at Newtown, on Long 

 Island, U. S., and was introduced to this country about the middle of 

 the last century. I find it was cultivated in the Brompton Park nursery 

 so early as 1768, under the name of " Newtown Pippin from New York." 

 Forsyth remarks that it is said to have been originally from Devonshire, 

 but if it were so, there would still have been some trace of it left in that 

 county. It is extensively cultivated in New York, and all the middle 

 states, and particularly on the Hudson, where the finest American orch- 

 ards are. There are immense quantities produced which are packed in 

 barrels and exported to Britain and other parts. The month of January, 

 is generally the season they arrive in this country, and then they are the 

 most attractive of all dessert apples in Covent Garden market ; the name 

 serving in many instances, as a decoy for the sale of many other and in- 

 ferior varieties. The Alfriston, in many collections, is erroneously culti- 

 vated under the name of Newtown Pippin. 



