106 THE FEUIT MANUAL. 



October to February, and is not subject to be attacked with the grub as 

 the Ribston Pippin is. 



Raised from the seed of the Ribston Pippin at Osterley Park, the seat of the 

 Earl of Jersey, near Isleworth, Middlesex, where the original tree is still in exist- 

 ence. 



OSTROGOTHA. Fruit, below medium size, two inches and a 

 quarter wide, and two inches high ; oblato-cylindrical, even and regular 

 in its outline, resembling Franklin's Golden Pippin in shape. Skin, 

 almost entirely covered with thin pale brown russet, and with patches 

 of the greenish ground colour. Eye, large and closed, with broad, flat, 

 convergent segments, set in a wide, shallow, saucer-like basin. Stamens, 

 basal ; tube, conical. Stalk, half an inch long, inserted in a deep 

 round cavity. Flesh, greenish yellow, tender, juicy, sweet, and richly 

 flavoured. Cells, obovate ; axile. 



A dessert apple of fine quality, which keeps till January, but shrivels 

 before Christmas. 



Owen's Golden Beauty. See Joanetwg. 

 Ox Apple. See Gloria Mundi. 

 Oxford Peach. See Scarlet Pearmain. 



OXNEAD PEARMAIN (Earl of Yarmouth's Pearmain). Fruit, 

 small and conical. Skin, entirely grass-green, always covered with a 

 thin russet ; sometimes when highly ripened it is tinged with very 

 pale brown on the sunny side. Eye, very small, surrounded with a 

 few obscure plaits. Stalk, very slender, three-quarters of an inch 

 long. Flesh, pale green, very firm and crisp, not juicy, but very rich 

 and highly flavoured. 



A dessert apple ; in use from November to April. 



I have never seen this apple. It was first noticed by Mr. George Lindley, whose 

 description of it I have given above. He says, " It is supposed to have originated 

 at Oxnead, near Norwich, the seat of the Earl of Yarmouth. It has been known 

 many years in Norfolk, no doubt prior to the extinction of that peerage in 1733, 

 and I have never seen it out of the county. The tree is a very small grower ; its 

 branches are small and wiry, and of a grass-green colour ; it is very hardy and an 

 excellent bearer." 



PACKHORSE. Fruit, small in shape, exactly resembling the old 

 Nonpareil. Skin, yellow, covered with a coat of thin pale brown 

 russet, which, however, exposes here and there patches of the clear 

 ground colour, and with a brownish red tinge next the sun. Eye, 

 closed, with large leafy segments, placed in a small angular and plaited 

 basin. Stalk, long and slender, set in a deep, narrow cavity. Flesh, 

 yellow, crisp, juicy, and briskly acid. 



A good dessert apple ; in use from November till March. 



This was raised in the garden of the Packhorse Inn at Turnham Green, Middle- 

 sex, when it was held by a person of the name of .Robinson, who also raised 

 Robinson's Pippin. 



PADLEY'S PIPPIN (Padley's Royal George Pippin). Fruit, small, 



