APPLES. 173 



PICKERING'S SEEDLING. Fruit, conical, rather uneven and 

 angular, with several ribs causing a pucker round the eye, where it has 

 a contracted appearance. Skin, smooth, pale greenish yellow, be- 

 coming sometimes lemon yellow, streaked on the side next the sun 

 with numerous broken lines and mottles of crimson. Eye, closed, set 

 in a puckered basin. Stalk, half an inch long, rather slender, and 

 deeply inserted in an uneven cavity. Flesh, yellowish, very tender 

 and delicate, with a pleasant perfume. 



This is an excellent apple, having flesh of the delicate texture of our 

 imported Newtown Pippin. 



This variety was brought to my notice by Mr. W. H. Caparn, of Newark, in 

 1869. Its appearance is not unlike a small beauty of Kent. 



PIGEON (Jerusalem ; Cceur de P'ujeon ; Pigeon Rouge}. Fruit, 

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

 quarters high ; conical and angular. Skin, membranous, shining, pale 

 yellow with a greenish tinge, which it loses as it attains maturity ; but 

 covered with fine clear red on the side next the sun, and strewed all 

 over with minute russety dots and imbedded white specks ; the whole 

 surface is covered with a bluish bloom, from which circumstance it 

 receives the name of Pigeon, being considered similar to the plumage of 

 a dove. Eye, open, with erect segments, prominently set in a narrow 

 and plaited basin. Stalk, very short, inserted in a deep and russety 

 cavity. Flesh, white, tender, soft, and juicy, pleasantly flavoured, but 

 not at all rich. 



A dessert apple of second-rate quality, but excellent for all culinary 

 purposes ; it is in use from November to January. It is necessary in 

 storing this apple that care should be taken to prevent fermentation, 

 by which its pleasant acidity is destroyed. The tree, though vigorous 

 in its young state, never attains a great size. Its shoots are long, 

 slender, and downy. It is an abundant and regular bearer. 



This apple is called Pomme de Jerusalem, from, as some fancy, the core having 

 four cells, which are disposed in the form of a cross, but this is not a permanent 

 character, as they vary from three to five. 



PIGEONNET. Fruit, below medium size, two inches and a quarter 

 wide, and the same in height ; oblato-ovate. Skin, pale greenish 

 yellow on the shaded side, but entirely covered with red on the side 

 next the sun, and striped and rayed with darker red, some of the 

 stripes extending to the shaded side. Eye, small and open, with erect 

 segments, set in a slightly depressed basin. Stamens, marginal ; tube, 

 funnel-shaped. Stalk, short and thick, inserted in a rather shallow 

 cavity. Flesh, white and delicate, of an agreeable acid and perfumed 

 flavour. Cells, ovate ; axile. 



A dessert fruit of second-rate quality; in use during August and 

 September. 



PIG'S NOSE PIPPIN. Fruit, quite small, an inch and three -eighths 

 wide, and an inch and a half high ; conical, even and regular in its 



