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inserted in a round cavity, which is lined with rough russet. Flesh, 

 yellowish, tender, crisp, sugary, and juicy, with a rich and excellent 

 flavour. 



A very valuable apple, either for the dessert or culinary purposes ; 

 it is in use from November to March. This variety has all the 

 properties of the Blenheim Pippin, and is much superior to it, keeps 

 longer, and has the great advantage of being an early and abundantbearer. 



I met with this excellent apple in the neighbourhood of Sittingbourne, in Kent, 

 about the year 1842. The account I received of it was, that the original tree grew 

 in the garden of a cottager of the name of Pope, at Cellar Hill, in the parish of 

 Linstead, near Sittingbourne. It was highly prized by its owner, to whom the 

 crop afforded a little income, and many were the unsuccessful applications of his 

 neighbours for grafts of what became generally known as Pope's Apple. The 

 proprietor of Pope's cottage built a row of other dwellings adjoining, in the gardens 

 of which there were no fruit trees, and, for the sake of uniformity, he cut down 

 Pope's apple-tree, notwithstanding the offer of twenty shillings a year more rent to 

 spare it. The tree, being condemned, was cut down in 1846, at which period it 

 was between fifty and sixty years old. The name of Cobham was given to it by 

 Kirke, the nurseryman at Brompton. 



COCCAGEE. Fruit, medium sized ; ovate. Skin, fine yellow, 

 smooth, and marked with green specks. Eye, small and closed. 

 Stalk, short. Flesh, yellowish white, soft, sharply acid, and austere. 



One of the oldest and best cider apples ; in use from October to 

 December. Although it is perhaps the most harsh and austere apple 

 known, and generally considered only fit for cider, still it is one of the 

 best for all culinary purposes, especially for baking, as it possesses a 

 particularly rich flavour when cooked. 



COCKLE'S PIPPIN (Nutmeg Pippin). Fruit, medium sized ; 

 conical or ovate, and slightly angular on the sides. Skin, greenish 

 yellow, changing as it ripens to deeper yellow, dotted with small grey 

 dots, and covered all over the base with delicate pale brown russet. 

 Eye, small, and slightly closed, set in an irregular and somewhat 

 angular basin. Stamens, marginal or median ; tube, funnel-shaped. 

 Stalk, an inch long, rather slender, obliquely inserted in a round and 

 deep cavity, which is lined with russet. Flesh, yellowish, firm, tender, 

 crisp, juicy, and sugary, with a pleasant aromatic flavour. Ceils, 

 elliptical ; axile, open. 



An excellent dessert apple, of the finest quality ; in use from 

 January to April. 



This was raised in Sussex by a person of the name of Cockle, and it is extensively 

 grown in this as well as the adjoining county of Surrey. It is mentioned by Forsyth, 

 in a MS. memorandum book in my possession, as a Sussex apple. 



COCKPIT. Fruit, about medium size ; obtuse ovate, and some- 

 what angular on the sides. Skin, green, changing as it ripens to 

 greenish yellow, with a faint orange tinge next the sun ; covered all 

 over with small russety dots and some lines of russet. Eye, closed, 

 with converging segments, placed in a rather shallow puckered basin. 

 Stamens, marginal ; tube, deep, funnel-shaped. Stalk, about half an 



