U2 APPLES. 



attain to a large size, and are great bearers a pint 

 of the juice of this apple, weighs eleven penny- weights 

 more than water. 



NO. 72. LARGE YELLOW NEWTON PIPPIN. 



This is in most of its varieties the finest apple of our 

 country, and probably of the world. It varies much in 

 quality, with soil, aspect, cultivation, climate and 

 age: although peculiarly adapted to strong high 

 ground, it may be raised in great perfection on all good 

 wheat and clover land the better the soil, the finer 

 Will be the fruit; for the growth is not vigorous, and 

 in every soil the bark has a rough appearance the 

 form is rather flat, the size large, the skin a greenish 

 yellow, with black clouds, and frequently with red 

 spots or blotches the ends are hollowed, the stem 

 short, the flesh rich, yellow, juicy, breaking and high- 

 ly flavoured ; it ripens in November, and is often kept 

 till May and June it is a superior table fruit, and 

 an excellent kitchen and cider apple it will produce 

 fine apples on even a light sandy soil, aided by the 

 application of river or meadow mud as a manure , 

 two or three cart loads to a tree. The tree does not ar- 

 rive to maturity until twenty or twenty-five years, the 

 cider produced from it is highly flavoured, but not so. 

 strong as many other kinds. 



