86 APPLES. 



42. GRAND SACHEM. 



A showy, large, dark, blood-red fruit, but rather coarse, and 

 scarcely worth cultivation. Fruit very large, roundish, dis- 

 tinctly ribbed, and irregular in its outline. Stalk short and 

 strong, and calyx set in a well marked basin. Skin smooth, 

 deep, dingy red, over the whole surface. Flesh white, rather 

 dry, and without much flavour. September. 



43. HOLLAND PIPPIN. Thomp. Lind. Miller. 



Reinnette d'Hollande. Noisette 7 



This and the Fall Pippin are frequently confounded together. 

 They are indeed of the same origin, and the leaves, wood, and 

 strong growth of both are very closely similar. One of the 

 strongest points of difference, however, lies in their time of ripen- 

 ing. This being with us a late summer, the Fall Pippin a late 

 autumn, and the White Spanish Reinnette an early winter fruit. 



The Holland Pippin, in the gardens here, begins to fall from 

 the tree, and is fit for pies about the middle of August, and from 

 that time to the first of November, is one of the very best kitchen 

 apples, making the finest tarts and pies. It is not equal to the 

 Fall Pippin for eating. 



Fruit very large, roundish, a little more square in outline than 

 the Fall Pippin, and not so much flattened, though a good deal 

 like it ; a little narrowed next the eye. Stalk half an inch 

 long, thick, deeply sunk. Calyx small, closed, moderately sunk 

 in a slightly plaited basin. Skin greenish yellow or pale green, 

 becoming pale yellow when fully ripe, washed on one side with 

 a little dull red or pale brown, with a few scattered, large, green- 

 ish dots. Deserves a place in every garden. 



44. HAWTHORNDEN. Thomp. Lind. Ron. 

 White Hawthorden. Nicott. 



A celebrated Scotch apple, which originated at Hawthornden, 

 the birth-place of the poet Drummond. It resembles, some- 

 what, our Maiden's Blush, but is inferiour to that fruit in 

 flavour. Fruit rather above the medium size, (occasionally 

 ribbed, according to Lindley,) with us, pretty regularly formed, 

 roundish, rather flattened. Skin very smooth, pale, light yellow, 

 nearly white in the shade, with a fine blush where exposed to the 

 sun. Calyx nearly closed, set in a rather shallow basin, with a 

 few obscure plaits. Stalk half an inch long, slender. Flesh 



