2T70 DESCRIPTIVE LIST OP APPLES. 



article of export and commerce to Nice, Barcelona, Cadiz, and Mar- 

 seilles. The fruit is rather large, its form inclining to globular. Its 

 beautiful waxen skin is a little marbled with a very faint green near the 

 eye ; its colour in the shade is a pale yellow, tinged with flaming crimson 

 next the sun ; the flesh is white, tender, delicate, sweet, with the fra- 

 grant perfume of roses. It ripens in September, and will keep till 

 Spring. 



MONSTROUS PIPPIN, New-York Gloria Mundi. Fruit of enormous 

 size, often weighing twenty -five ounces or more ^ of a pale lemon co-- 

 lour; flesh tender, and of a sprightly flavour, excellent ft r cooking ;. 

 ripens in October, and continues fit for use till January. 



NEWTOWN PIPPIN, American Newtown Pippin, Yellow Newtown 

 Pippin. This variety, when perfectly matured, is considered by some 

 as the finest apple in our country \ its skin is green, changing to an 

 olive yellow at maturity, having a thin russet covering the greatest 

 part of the base ; flesh pale yellow and firm; juice saccharine, and pos- 

 sessing a rich and highly aromatic flavour ; from December to April. 



NEWTOWN SPITZENBURG, Matchless. A beautiful apple of medium 

 size ; skin streaked, and tinged with red and yellow ; tlesh yellow, rich 

 and highly flavoured ; from October till February. 



NORFOLK BEAUFIN. Fruit middling size, flattish, of a deep red and 

 pale green colour ; it ripens in November, and is frequently to be ob- 

 tained in England in July following ; the flesh is firm and savoury ; the 

 tree hardy, upright, a good bearer; fruit excellent for use in the kitchen, 

 and highly esteemed for the dessert. 



ORTLKY PIPPIN, Ortley Apple. A fruit very much resembling the 

 Yellow Newtown Pippin, but a little more oval ; skin bright yellow in 

 the shade, and bright scarlet with russetty spots next the sun; flesh yel- 

 lowish, crisp and breaking ; very juicy, with the same pine apple flavour 

 which distinguishes the Newtown Pippin; geod from November to 

 April. 



PENNOCK'S RED WINTER Fruit very large and compressed; of 

 deep red colour, streaked with yellow ; flesh tender, juicy, and of sweet 

 and pleasant flavour ; ripens in November, and will keep good till 

 March. It is a very popular apple in the Philadelphia markets. 



P. NE APPLE RUSSET, Hardingham's Russet. This delicious apple u 

 above the middle size, roundi-h, ovate ; skin pale greenish yellow, with 

 white specks, and partially russetty; juice abundant; flesh of a spicy t 

 aromatic, pine-apple flavour, hence its name ; ripe in September. 



RHODE ISLAND GREENING* Fruit large and depressed at maturity ; 

 greenish yellow ; slightly acid, and ef the finest flavour; ripens in No- 

 vember, and continues till April. A most estimable apple for cooking 

 as well as for the dessert. 



RIBSTONE Pippric, ^Formosa Pippin, Traver's Apple, Glory of York. 

 Fruit of medium size, roundish, and partially depressed; of a pale yel- 

 low colour, tinged with red; pulp slightly acid, and of fine flavour; 

 ripens in November, and continues till April It i one of the most 

 popular dessert apples in England. 



