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excelling it in juiciness, and being of a better size for the dessert ; it 

 is in use from November to February. 



The tree is quite hardy, and generally an abundant bearer, except 

 in seasons when the bloom is injured by frosts, to which it is liable. 

 It is of a small and slender habit of growth, and is well adapted for 

 growing as dwarfs or espaliers when grafted on the paradise stock. 



There seems to be no record of this variety before the publication of the Pomona 

 Londinen^is, although it was known for many years previously. Kogers says he 

 saw a tree of it growing as an espalier in the garden t i^heen, which was planted 

 by Sir William Temple. I find it was cultivated to a considerable extent in the 

 Bromptori Park Nursery so early as 1750 ; it must therefore have been well known 

 at that period, but I cannot discover any trace of its origin. It may have been 

 introduced from the Continent by George London, who was for some years in the 

 gardens at Versailles under De La Quintinye, and afterwards in partnership with 

 Henry Wise as proprietor of the Brompton Park Nursery, as the name seems to 

 indicate more of French than English origin. 



Marguerite. See Margaret. 



MARK MARSHALL. Fruit, small, two inches and a half wide, 

 and two inches high ; conical or roundish ovate, frequently with one 

 very prominent rib, but always angular. Skin, with an orange red 

 cheek where exposed to the sun, yellow in the shade, strewed with 

 russet dots. Eye, closed, with flat convergent segments, set in a 

 somewhat angular and plaited basin. Stamens, median or marginal ; 

 tube, conical, inclining to funnel-shape, wide and deep, out of all 

 proportion to the size of the fruit. Stalk, very short, imbedded in 

 the cavity. Flesh, tender, juicy, sweet, and richly flavoured. Cells, 

 obovate ; axile. 



An excellent dessert apple ; in use from October to December. 



MARMALADE PIPPIN (Altlwrp Pippin ; Welsh Pippin). Fruit, 

 medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and two inches and three- 

 quarters high ; oblong, with a prominent rib on one side, and flattened 

 at the apex, where it terminates in several prominences. Skin, very 

 thick, hard, and membranous ; deep yellow, with a brownish tinge next 

 the sun, and strewed with numerous imbedded pearly specks. Eye, 

 small and open, with long acuminate and reflexed segments, set in a 

 deep and angular basin. Stalk, half an inch long, inserted in a deep 

 and smooth cavity. Flesh, yellowish white, firm and tender, sweet, 

 juicy, and pleasantly flavoured. 



A culinary apple, but only of second-rate quality ; it is in use from 

 October to January. 



The tree is hardy and an abundant bearer. 



This was introduced in 1818 the year in which the original tree first produced 

 fruit by a Mr. Stevens, of Stanton Grange, in Derbyshire, by whom it was raised 

 from a seed of the Keswick Codlin. The Marmalade Pippin of Diel, which is 

 described in vol. '22, and which he says is an English apple, is not the same as the 

 above, for he describes it as " a true streaked apple, and ripe in August." 



MARRIAGE -MAKER. Fruit, small, about two inches and a 



