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In the orchards of East Sussex and West Kent this is a very common variety. 

 I should imagine it would make a sweet cider, and it seems more adapted for that 

 purpose than any other. 



SYKE HOUSE RUSSET. Fruit, below medium size, two inches 

 and a quarter broad, by one inch and three-quarters high ; roundish 

 oblate. Skin, yellowish green, but entirely covered with brown russet, 

 strewed with silvery grey scales ; sometimes it has a brownish tinge on 

 the side which is exposed to the sun. Eye, small and open, set in a 

 shallow basin. Stamens, marginal or median ; tube, short, funnel- 

 shaped. Stalk, half an inch long, inserted in a shallow cavity. Flesh, 

 yellowish, firm, crisp, and juicy, with a rich, sugary, and very high 

 flavour. Cells, small, obovate ; axile. 



One of the most excellent dessert apples ; it is in use from October 

 to February. 



The tree is a free grower, hardy, and an excellent bearer ; it attains 

 about the middle size, and is well adapted for growing as an espalier, 

 when grafted on the paradise stock. 



This variety originated at the village of Syke House, in Yorkshire, whence its 

 name. 



Diel's nomenclature of the Syke House Russet affords a good example of the 

 change the names of fruits are subject to when translated from one language to 

 another. He writes it Englische Spitalsreinette, which he translates Sik-House 

 Apple, because, as he supposed, it received this appellation either from the brisk- 

 ness of its flavour being agreeable to invalids, or from its having originated in the 

 garden of an hospital. He says he finds it only in Kirke's Fruit Tree Catalogue, 

 where it is erroneously printed Syke House! He calls it English Hospital Reinette. 



Taliesin. See Norfolk Leefnvj. 



TARYEY CODLIN. Fruit, large and conical. Skin, dull olive 

 green, with an imperfect mixture of yellow on the shaded side, and 

 yellowish red, much spotted, with broken rows of large blood-red dots 

 next the sun. Flesh, white and juicy, somewhat resembling the 

 English Codlin. 



A good culinary apple for a northern climate ; in use during Novem- 

 ber and December. 



This was raised from seed of the Manks Codlin, impregnated with the Nonpareil, 

 by Sir G. S. Mackenzie, Bart., of Coul, in Rosshire. 



Taunton Black. See Black Taunton. 



TAUNTON GOLDEN PIPPIN. Fruit, below medium size, two 

 inches and a quarter wide, and the same in height ; oblate-cylindrical, 

 regularly and handsomely shaped. Skin, deep rich yellow, strewed 

 with markings and freckles of russet on the shaded side, but covered 

 with a cloud of red, which is marked with deeper red streaks on the 

 side next the sun. Eye, open, set in a wide, rather deep, and plaited 

 basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a narrow and rather shallow cavity. 

 Flesh, yellow, firm, crisp, and delicate, with a brisk, sugary, and par- 

 ticularly rich vinous flavour. 



