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quite imbedded in the deep round cavity, sometimes with a swelling on 

 one side of it. Flesh, yellow, tender, juicy, sweet, with a rich flavour 

 and high aroma. Cells, obovate ; axile, open. 



A delicious dessert apple, which will keep till March. 



This was raised from Cornish Gilliflower by Mr. John Gidley, town clerk of 

 Exeter, and was sent to me by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince & Co., nurserymen of that 

 city, in 1876. 



JOLLY BEGGAR. Fruit, about medium size, two inches and a 

 half wide, and two inches high ; roundish oblate, with connivent 

 segments. Skin, pale yellow, with an orange tinge next the sun, and 

 strewed with russet dots. Eye, with connivent segments, set in a 

 plaited basin. Stamens, marginal ; tube, conical. Stalk, half an inch 

 long, set in a deep, very wide cavity. Flesh, white, tender, juicy, 

 sweet, briskly and pleasantly flavoured. Cells, obovate ; abaxile. 



A first-rate early cooking apple from August till October. The 

 great merit of this variety is its great fertility, the small bush trees 

 producing an abundance of fine yellow fruit. The tree bears very early, 

 and is one of the most useful for garden culture. 



JONATHAN. Fruit, about medium size, two inches and a quarter 

 to two and a half wide, and the same high ; conical, even and regular 

 in its outline. Skin, very much covered with bright red, splashed 

 and streaked with darker red and deep yellow, stained with red on 

 the shaded side, the whole strewed with large russet dots. Eye, 

 closed, with short convergent segments, set in a narrow basin, which is 

 ribbed and plaited. Stamens, median ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, 

 three-quarters to an inch long, slender, inserted in a round, even cavity. 

 Flesh, yellowish, tender, juicy, sweet, and briskly flavoured. Cells,, 

 obovate ; axile, slit. 



A very fine dessert apple ; in use from December to April. It was 

 brought to my notice by Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth ; and a few 

 fruit which he gave me I wrapped in tissue paper, and they kept well 

 till the end of June. 



This is an American variety, and originated on the farm of Mr. Philip Rick, of 

 Kingston, New York. 



Jones's Southampton Pippin. See Golden Winter Pearmain. 

 Josephine. See Ednettc Blanche cVEspayne. 

 Jubilee Pippin. See Eland's Jubilee. 



JULY PIPPIN. Fruit, small, about two inches wide, and two and 

 a quarter high ; conical, larger on one side of the axis than the other. 

 Skin, when ripe, deep yellow, streaked or mottled with pale crimson on 

 the shaded side, and entirely covered with red, which is streaked with 

 deep crimson, on the side next the sun. Eye, closed, with long erect 

 segments, set on the surface, and surrounded by several knobs. 

 Stamens, median ; tube, funnel-shaped. Flesh, juicy, briskly and 

 agreeably flavoured. Cells, Codlin-like, elliptical ; abaxile, open. 



