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This is one of our oldest English apples, and still deserving of wider cultivation 

 than it at present has. Formerly it was an ingredient in one of the national dishes 

 of English cookery in the form of " Codlins and cream." Ray says, " Crudum 

 vix editur ob duritiem et aciditatem, set! coctum vel cum cremoro lactis, vel cum 

 aqua rosacea et saccharo comestum inter laudatissima fercula habetur." The name 

 is derived from coddle, to parboil. 



Englischer Quittenapfel. See Lemon Pippin. 

 English Golden Pearmain. See Golden Pear main. 

 English Nonpareil. See Nonpareil. 

 English Pippin. See Golden lleinette. 



ESOPUS SPITZENBURGH (JEsopus Spitzenberg ; True Spitzeu- 

 liunjh}. Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter wide, and three inclu-s 

 high ; ovate, and regularly formed. Skin, almost entirely covered with 

 clear bright red, and marked with lawn-coloured russety dots, except on 

 a portion of the shaded side, where it is yellow tinged and streaked with 

 red. Eye, small and closed, set in a moderately deep and undulating 

 basin. Stamens, median ; tube, conical. Stalk, slender, about an inch 

 long, inserted in a wide, round, and deep cavity. Flesh, yellow, crisp, 

 juicy, richly and briskly flavoured. Cells, ovate ; axile, slit. 



A most excellent dessert apple ; in use from November to February. 



A native of the United States, and there considered one of the best dessert 

 apples. Along with the Newtown Pippin, it ranks as cne of the most productive 

 and profitable orchard fruits, but, like many, and indeed almost all the best American 

 varieties, it does not attain to that perfection in this country that it does in its 

 native soil. The tree is tender and subject to canker, and the fruit lacks that high 

 flavour and peculiar richness which characterises the imported specimens. It was 

 raised at Esopus, on the Hudson, where it is still grown to a large extent. 



ESSEX PIPPIN. Fruit, small ; round and flattened, somewhat 

 oblate. Skin, smooth, green at first, but becoming of a yellowish 

 green as it ripens, and with a faint tinge of thin red where exposed 

 to the sun. Eye, open, with long, reflexed, acuminate segments, placed 

 in a shallow basin. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, slender, 

 inserted in a round and even cavity. Flesh, yellowish, firm, and crisp, 

 with a brisk, sugary, and rich flavour. 



A dessert apple of first-rate quality, nearly allied to the Golden 

 Pippin ; it is in use from October to February. 



Essex Spice. See D'Arcy Spice. 



Eve Apple. See Manks L'odlin. 



Eve Apple. See Margaret. 



Eve's Apple. See Trwnpinaton. , 



Fair Lady. See Early Julyan. 



EVAEGIL. Fruit, below medium size, two inches and a half wide, 



