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Golden Eeinette (English Pippin, Dundee, Elizabeth, Megginch 

 Favomite, Princess Noble, Wyker Pippin). A very popular and excellent 

 dessert apple of English origin. Fruit below medium-size, regular, 

 roundish, and a little flattened. Skin smooth, golden-yellow, flushed 

 and streaked with red on one side, and dotted with russet. Flesh 

 yellow, crisp, juicy, and briskly sub-acid. Ripens medium late, will 

 keep two or three months, and is a good dessert apple. Tree moderately 

 vigorous and productive. 



Golden Eeinette. 



Golden Russet (English Golden Russet). An old and popular English 

 variety, with medium- sized roundish-oblate fruit. Skin thickly covered 

 with bright-yellow russet. Flesh yellowish white, firm, juicy, and 

 mildly sub-acid. Ripens late, keeps well, and is a good dessert apple. 

 Tree strong, prolific, and an early bearer. 



Golden Winter Pearmain (Hampshire Yellow, King of the Pippins^ 

 Southampton Pippin). An old and favourite English variety, with 

 medium-sized pearmain-shaped fruit. Skin deep yellow, flushed and 

 streaked with red. Flesh yellowish-white, firm, juicy, with a sweet 

 aromatic flavour. Ripens medium late, will keep three or four months, 

 and a good apple either for dessert br cooking and suitable for export. 

 Tree moderately vigorous and a free bearer. 



Gooseberry Pippin. A good and popular old English variety, with 

 rather small roundish fruit, somewhat flattened. Skin greenish-yellow, 

 with splashes and marblings of red. Flesh greenish-white, tender, 

 juicy, and pleasantly sub-acid. Ripens late, will keep for a long period, 

 a good dessert apple, and suitable for an export trade. Tree robust and 

 productive. 



