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narrow cavity. Flesh, crisp, tender, juicy, and richly flavoured, with a 

 brisk acidity. Cells, elliptical ; axile. 



An excellent dessert apple ; in use till January. In shape it is not 

 unlike Herefordshire Pearmain. 



LONDON PIPPIN (Fivt'-CfnimcJ Pipjnn ; AY/r L<nlnn ri/>]>in).~ 

 Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three-quarters broad, and two 

 inches and a quarter high ; roundish, and flattened, with a few ribs on 

 the sides, which increase in size towards the crown, where they termi- 

 nate in fivo prominent and equal ridges, from which circumstance it 

 has been called the Five-Crowned Pippin. Skin, at first pale yellowish 

 k r iveu, changing to pale yellow or lemon colour, with brownish red on 

 the side next the sun. Stamens, marginal ; tube, funnel-shaped. 

 Eye, small and closed, set in a rather shallow basin. Stalk, half an 

 inch long, slender, and deeply inserted. Flesh, yellowish white, 

 firm, crisp, tender, and juicy, with a brisk and pleasant flavour. Cells, 

 round ; axile, closed. 



An excellent culinary apple, and serviceable also for the dessert ; it 

 is in use from November to April, when it is perfectly sound, and shows 

 no symptoms of shrivelling. 



The tree attains about the middle size, is not a strong grower, but 

 quite hardy, and an excellent bearer. 



Although there is no record of this variety in the writings of any pomological 

 author before Mr. Lindley, it is nevertheless a very old English apple. In an 

 ancient note-book of an ancestor of the Trevelyans, of Nettlecombe, in Somerset- 

 shire, so early as 1580, the " Lounden Peppen" is mentioned among the " names 

 of Appelles which I had their graffes from Brentmarch, out of Essex, from one 

 Mr. Pace." From this we may learn that we are not to take for granted the non- 

 ex^tence of any variety, simply because there is no notice of it, previous to the 

 period when it may have been first recorded, in works on pomology. This has 

 been erroneously called Royal Somerset, which see. 



LONDON ROYAL RUSSET. Fruit, large, three inches wide, and 

 two inches and three-quarters high ; roundish, inclining to ovate, un- 

 even in its outline, with ribs which extend to the apex, where they 

 form corresponding ridges round the eye. Skin, coloured like a 

 Ribston Pippin, the greenish yellow ground being streaked with dark 

 crimson, mottled with pale brown russet, with a sprinkling of the russet 

 in thin patches all over the surface, and especially over the base. Eye, 

 closed, with connivent segments, which are divergent at the tips, set in 

 a deep angular basin. Stamens, median ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, 

 half an inch long, stout, deeply inserted in a wide, even cavity, lined 

 with smooth olive-coloured russet. Flesh, greenish yellow, very tender 

 and juicy, with a brisk and pleasant flavour. Cells, ovate ; axile, 

 open. 



A very excellent and tender-fleshed kitchen apple; sent me from 

 Cornwall by Mr. Vivian, of Hayle. It is in use up till Christmas. 



LONG NOSE. Fruit, rather below medium size, two inches and a 

 half high, and about the same in width at the base ; conical, with 



