OF SUMMER APPLES. 15 



Class II. Yellow and green fruits ; or if red, the color is a suffused orange or carmine on 



the sunny side, without stripes. 



Order I. Height and breadth equal or lubequal. 



B. Ends unequal . 



1. SUGARLOAF PIPPIN. 



Suiarloaf Pippin, Lond. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 1078. Dalgoi Sguozinoi, No. 254 Lond. Hort. do. 



Fruit medium size. Base rather wide, from which it tapers to the crown, in which the 

 excavation is i;jither deep and plaited : plaits few. Stem rather long, and inserted into 

 a deep, rather wide, regular depression. Color light yellow on both sides, and becoming 

 rather white when ripe. Skin marked with a few greenish dots. Flesh white, firm, crisp 

 and juicy, with a sweetish subacid flavor. 

 An excellent August apple, but keeps only about ten days. Supposed to be of Russian 



origin. 



2. SPRING-GROVE CODLIN. 



spring-grove Codlin, Lond. Hort. Trans. Vol. 1. p. ISTT. 

 Fruit of the medium size, elongated, but the diameter greater than the height, slightly 



angular : crown narrow : depression narrow, oblique and plaited. Stem short. Color 



pale greenish yellow, with an orange cheek on the sunny side. Flesh greenish yellow, 



tender, with a saccharine juice and an aromatic perfume. 



This apple is honored with an introduction to the London Horticultural Society, from the 

 celebrated Sir Joseph Banks, in 1810. 



3. DOCTOR HELSHAM'S PIPPIN. 



Fruit mid^e size, higher than wide, slightly angular and conical : crown narrow : depres- 

 sion oblique and rather wide. Color yellowish, with a clear blush of carmine, without 

 stripes on the sunny side. Stem rather long, and inserted in a deep depression. Juice 

 sweet, with some aroma. 

 August and September. Branches of the tree drooping. Apple originated in the county 



of Norfolk, England. 



4. REVELSTONE PIPPIN (Lond. Hort. Trans. Vol. iv. p. 622). 

 Fruit somewhat angular, and of the medium size : angles or ribs running into the calyx 

 depression, and terminating in small knobs. Stem short, thick, inserted into a round 

 smooth depression. Color greenish yellow, the sunny side suffused with a carmine blush 

 without stripes. Skin dotted with russety spots. Flesh yellow, firm, dry, but attended 

 with a good flavor. 

 August and I>eginning of September. Decay rather rapid. 



