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DESCRIPTIONS 



80. RIDGED PIPPIN Plate 55. 



Fruit of the medium size, wide at the base, ridged, circular. Color yellow, greenish 

 nround the base, variegated with a few red spots. Stem eqiuiUing the base and set in a 

 wide depression. Calyx rather large ; depression small and shallow, plaited, plaits 

 promineni, numerous, and extending over the sides. Skin thick. Flesh yellowish 

 white, firm subacid. Core small. 

 The ridged pippin is a fine fruit, and was exhibited at New- York by Mr. John Perkins. 



It is a late fall apple. 



Plate 45, Fig. 1. 



Fig. 28. 



81. FRENCH PIPPIN 



Fruit above the medium size, 

 circular, symmetrical. Color 

 green, yellowish green en- 

 livened with a few red blotches 

 around the base. Stem short, 

 rising half way to the base ; 

 depression wide. Calyx small 

 and inclosed in deep depres- 

 sion. Core small. Flesh yel- 

 lowish, tart and juicy. 

 A good second rate apple. 



Exhibited at the Horticultural 



Rooms in Albany, January 1849. 



Late fall or early winter. 



82. SUMMER BROADEN. 



Summer Colmar. 

 I 



Fruit above the medium size, sub-angular. Color dull green, and tinged with a dull 

 brown on the sunny side. Stem short and slender, subequaling the base ; deeply in- 

 serted. Calyx small and closed; depression narrow. Flesh greenish white, subacid. 

 An English apple well known in the county of Norfolk. 



83. WALTHAM ABBEY SEEDLING (Hort. Trans. Vol. v, p. 269). 

 Fruit of the medium size, globular. Color pale yellow, and deepens as the fruit ripens, 

 and becomes enlivened with deep scarlet on the sunny side ; skin specked with greenish 

 dots, and patched with russet near the stem. Flesh yellowish, soft, juicy and sweet. 

 An English seedling, which ripens in October and keeps till christmas. 



