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and is also good as an eating apple. It is ripe in the first week of 

 August, but soon becomes woolly after being gathered. 



Early Striped Juneating. See Maryaret. 

 Early Summer Pippin. See Drap d'Or. 



EARLY WAX. Fruit, below medium size, two inches wide, and 

 two inches and a half high ; oblong, and somewhat ribbed, particularly 

 at the base. Skin, thick and membranous, of an uniform waxen yellow 

 colour. Eye, partially open, with long reflexed segments, and set in a 

 moderately deep basin. Stalk, long and slender, inserted in a deep and 

 angular cavity, from which issue prominent ribs. Flesh, yellowish 

 white, tender and soft, with a sweet and abundant juice. 



A dessert apple of ordinary merit, valuable only for its earliness, as 

 it ripens in the first week of August, but does not keep any time. 



Easter Pippin. See Winter Greening. 



ECKLINVILLE. Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and two 

 inches and a half high ; roundish and flattened, even in its outline, and 

 slightly angular round the eye. Skin, bright, rather deep lemon colour, 

 with a tinge of green, strewed, but not thickly, with large russet dots, 

 and with a crimson blush on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, large, 

 with closed segments, deeply set in an angular basin. Stamens, 

 median ; tube, conical. Stalk, half an inch long, slender, not protrud- 

 ing beyond the flat base of the fruit. Flesh, white, tender, and fine 

 grained, with a brisk acidulous flavour. Cells, ovate ; abaxile. 



This is a handsome and excellent culinary apple ; in use from October 

 to Christmas. The tree is a great bearer. 



The tree was raised at Ecklinville, four miles from Portaferry, and eighteen from 

 Belfast, by a Scotch gardener of the name of Logan, about the beginning of this 

 century, and it is now extensively grown in Ireland and the south of Scotland. 



EDINBURGH CLUSTER (Sir Walter Blackett's).Fimt, below 

 medium size, two inches and a half wide, and two and a quarter high ; 

 roundish or roundish ovate, obtusely angular, and rather ribbed round 

 the eye. Skin, pale lemon yellow, very much dotted with pale brown 

 russet and patches of the same, particularly round the base, and with 

 a faint orange tinge next the sun. Eye, closed, with broad, erect seg- 

 ments, which are reflexed at the tips, set in a wide and plaited basin. 

 Stamens, median ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, short and slender, set 

 in a narrow cavity, from which branch out lines of rough russet. 

 Flesh, white, tender, juicy, and sub-acid, with a peculiar aroma. Cells, 

 ob ovate ; axile, slit. 



A second-rate dessert apple in the southern parts of the country, 

 but of better quality in the north, and especially in the Border 

 counties. November to January. 



Edmonton Aromatic. See Kerry Pippin. 



