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Their names are derived from Ingestrie, 

 (pronounced Ingstre,) the seat of the 

 Earl of Talbot. 



The Court of Wyck Pippin. This is a 

 fine thriving variety and not an old fruit, 

 it is mucli cultivated in Somersetshire, 

 and is highly prized. This appears more 

 like the golden Harvey than any other 

 apple, and I should think, is really an 

 improvement on that fruit. I brought 

 some of the fruit to London, and on 

 giving it to several persons who are 

 judges, it was pronounced one of .the best 

 apples. This, as well as the golden Har- 

 vey, partakes much of the nature in all 

 respects, of the old golden pippin, except 

 in colour j the golden Harvey has a fine 

 yellow russet on a red, and the court of 

 Wyck is so much like it, that except in 

 its being a more freely growing tree, 

 and the fruit somewhat larger, no one I 

 think could tell any great difference in the 

 two. 



Next to the court of Wyck pippin, is 

 the Canbury Pippin^ possessing all the 



