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crown, forming corresponding ridges round the eye. Skin, deep lemon 

 colour, strewed nil over with large russet specks. Eye, closed, with 

 erect connivent segments, set in a deep and angular basin. Stamens, 

 marginal ; tube, long, fennel-shaped. Stalk, short and slender, inserted in 

 a deep, narrow cavity. Flesh, white, tender, very juicy, with a pleasant 

 flavour and mild acidity. Cells, obovate ; axile. 



An excellent culinary apple, which keeps well till January. 



LINCOLNSHIRE HOLLAND PIPPIN (Striped Jlnll.md Pippin}. 

 Fruit, above medium size, three inches and a half wide, and three 

 inches and a quarter high ; roundish, inclining to ovate, and somewhat 

 angular on the sides. Skin, yellow on the shaded side, but orange, 

 stivaked with crimson, on the side next the sun, and studded all over 

 with numerous imbedded green specks. Eye, small, set in a pretty 

 deep basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a rather shallow cavity. Flesh, 

 white, and pleasantly sub-acid. 



A very showy, but very useless apple, fit only for kitchen use, and then 

 only of second-rate quality ; it is in season from November to February. 



LITTLE HERBERT. A small, round apple, covered with brown 

 russet. Much esteemed in Gloucestershire as a first-rate dessert fruit ; 

 but is, in fact, only second-rate. 



Tree, a shy bearer. December to March. 



LOAN'S PEARMAIN. Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a half 

 wide, and two inches and a quarter high ; roundish ovate or abrupt 

 Peannain-shaped. Skin, greenish yellow, changing to bright yellow, 

 dotted with russet, with a few faint streaks of red, and strewed with 

 numerous large russety dots on the shaded side, but deep orange 

 mottled and streaked with crimson, and covered with patches of thin 

 grey russet, on the side next the sun. Eye, open, with reflexed seg- 

 ments, set in a wide, even, and plaited basin. Stamens, median ; 

 tube, conical. Stalk, half an inch or more long, inserted in a rather 

 shallow cavity, with a fleshy protuberance on one side of it. Flesh, 

 greenish white, tender, crisp, and very juicy, with a sugary and 

 pleasant flavour. Cells, obovate ; axile. 



An excellent old dessert apple ; in use from November to February. 



This very old variety is first mentioned by Ray, but is not in Meager's list. It 

 very much resembles Cox's Orange Pippin "in shape and colour, but is not nearly 

 so rich in flavour. 



LODDINGTON (Stone's Apple; LatUington SeedUm/). Fruit, 

 large, three inches and three-quarters wide, and three inches high ; 

 round, somewhat flattened, and narrowing abruptly towards the eye ; 

 it has obtuse ribs, which terminate in ridges round the eye. Skin, 

 smooth and shining, grass-green at first, with a tinge of brown on the 

 side next the sun, but changing when the fruit is gathered to lemon 

 yellow with a tinge of pale crimson, with broken streaks and specks of 

 deep crimson on the side next the sun, the whole surface strewed with 



