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A first-rate kitchen apple. The tree is a marvellous bearer, rarelv 

 failing to produce a crop. 



This was raised by Messrs. Lane & Son, of Berkhampstead. 



Langton Nonesuch. See y<jnesuch. 



Large Early Bough. See Larye Yellow ]>owjli. 



Large Hunthouse. See Hunthouse. 



LARGE YELLOW BOUGH (L,ir,jr Knrbj Yellow Hough; Sweet 

 Bou<jh ; Early Jlitwfh; llnuyh : Xirwt lltirrcst). Fruit, above medium 

 size ; oblong oval, handsomely and rcgularlv formed. Skin, smooth, 

 pale greenish yellow. Eye, set in a narrow and deep basin. Stalk, 

 rather long. Flesh, white, very tender, crisp, and very juicy, with a 

 rich, sweet, sprightly flavour. 



A dessert apple of first-rate quality, Ripe in the beginning of 

 August. The tree is a vigorous and luxuriant grower, and a good 

 bearer. 



Large Yellow Newtown Pippin. See Xeictoini Pippin. 

 Leathercoat. See lloyal liusset. 



LEATHERCOAT. Fruit, small, two inches and a quarter wide, and 

 two inches high ; conical or ovate, and angular, with ribs round the 

 crown. Skin, almost entirely covered with dark brown russet, and here 

 and there patches of the yellowish green ground exposed. Eye, small 

 and closed, with connivent segments, set in a narrow, uneven basin. 

 Stamens, marginal ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, half an inch long, 

 deeply inserted. Flesh, greenish, crisp, juicy, sweet, and briskly 

 flavoured. Cells, obovate ; axile, closed. 



A dessert apple of good flavour ; in use from November till 

 February. 



This is the old Leathercoat, which has been in cultivation for centuries, and is 

 totally distinct from the Royal Russet which is sometimes called by that name. 

 It was sent from the Vale of Berkeley by Mr. Viner Ellis, of Minsterworth, to 

 Dr. Bull, of Hereford, to whom I am indebted for specimens of this interesting 

 apple. This is no doubt the apple which Shakespeare mentions in Henry IV., 

 when Davy says to Bardolph 



" There is a dish of Leather-ccats for you," 

 and the scene is laid in Gloucestershire. 



Leicester Burton Pippin. See French Codlin, 



LEMON PIPPIN (Kirkes Lemon Pippin ; Quince ; Englisclier 

 Winterquitttnapfcl). Fruit, medium sized, three inches and a quarter 

 long, by two and a half broad ; oval, with a large fleshy elongation 

 covering the stalk, which gives it the form of a lemon. Skin, pale 

 yellow, tinged with green, changing to a lemon yellow as it attains 

 maturity, strewed with russety freckles, and patches of thin delicate 

 russet. Eye, small, and partially open, with short segments, and set 



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