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inserted. Flesh, white, very tender, juicy, and sweet. Cells, roundish ; 

 abaxile. 



In use from September to Christmas. Its great merit rests in its 

 cooking qualities, being esteemed one of the finest which is sent into 

 the Royal household at Windsor. 



Raised in the gardens at Frogrnore by the late Mr. Ingram, the royal gardener. 



Fry's Pippin. See Court of Wick. 



GALLOWAY PIPPIN (Croft-en-Reich). Fruit, large, three inches 

 and a half wide, and two inches and three-quarters high ; roundish, 

 and obscurely angular round the basin of the eye. Skin, smooth, 

 of a greenish yellow colour on the shaded side, and of a pale thin red, 

 gradually blending into the yellow, on that exposed to the sun, strewed 

 with russet dots like Durnelow's Seedling, and here and there traces of 

 russet ; as it ripens it becomes a clear bright straw colour. Eye, 

 with erect convergent segments, set in a pretty deep basin, which is 

 uneven, with knobbed plaits. Stamens, marginal ; tube, short, conical. 

 Stalk, about half an inch long, imbedded in the deep cavity, which is 

 smooth. Flesh, yellowish with a greenish tinge, and somewhat 

 perfumed, tender, briskly flavoured. Cells, small, obovate ; axile, 

 closed. 



A first-rate kitchen apple ; in use till the end of January. 



This has been cultivated near Wigtoun, in Galloway, from time immemorial. 



GANGES. Fruit, rather large and cylindrical, with angles on the 

 sides, extending from the base to the apex. Skin, pale grass-green, 

 assuming a yellowish tinge by keeping, and with a blush of red on the 

 side next the sun, marked with short broken streaks of crimson. Eye, 

 closed, with long, broad, flat woolly segments, set in a pretty deep 

 basin, marked with ten prominent ribs, and lined with down. Stamens, 

 marginal ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, half an inch loDg, slender, 

 sometimes a little downy. Flesh, yellowish green, tender, and fine- 

 grained, crisp and juicy, with a pleasant sub-acid flavour. Cells, 

 elliptical ; abaxile. 



A kitchen apple ; in use from October to January. 



Gardener's Apple. See American Mother. 

 Garnon's. See Court-Pendil-Plat. 

 Garret Pippin. See Borsdorfer. 



GENNET-MOYLE. Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a half 

 wide, and two inches and an eighth high ; roundish, and somewhat 

 flattened, prominently and obtusely ribbed, and with ridges round the 

 crown. Skin, clear lemon yellow with a more or less russety cheek, 

 and with russet lines all over the side next the sun. Eye, closed, 

 with connivent leafy segments, set in a puckered basin. Stamens, 



