8 APPLES. 



16. SUGAR-LOAF PIPPIN. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 1078. 

 Pom. Mag, t. 3. 



Dolgoi Squoznoi. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 254., according 

 to the Pom. Mag. 



Fruit ovate or oblong, generally tapering to the eye, which 

 is much hollowed, with a few slight plaits. Stalk about an 

 inch long, inserted in a deep, regular cavity. Skin a very 

 clear light yellow, with a few greenish dots ; yellow on the 

 sunny side, and becoming nearly white when fully ripe. 

 Flesh whitish, firm, crisp, very juicy, with a most agreeable, 

 lively, sweetish sub-acid flavour, 



An excellent summer apple, ripe the beginning of August, 

 but if kept above a week or ten days it becomes soft and 

 mealy. 



This appears to be of Russian origin, having been sent 

 from the Taurida Gardens, at St. Petersburgh, to the Hor- 

 ticultural Society, London, under the name of Dolgoi Squoz- 

 noi, two Russian words, dolgoi, signifying long, audsquoznoi 

 transparent. 



SECT. III. Jlutwnnal. Round, or nearly so. 



17. BERE COURT PIPPIN. Hort. Trans. Yol. v. p. 400. 

 Fruit about the middle size, resembling a large and well 



formed Nonesuch, but rather less flattened. Stalk slender 

 and deeply inserted. Skin pale yellow, beautifully variegat- 

 ed with broken stripes of red. Flesh crisp, very juicy, with 

 a high flavoured acidity. It does not keep late, but is a most 

 valuable apple for the kitchen while it lasts. 



Raised by the Rev. Dr. Symonds Breedon, in his garden 

 at Bere Court, near Pangbourne, in Berkshire, and exhibited 

 at the Horticultural Society, London, October 15, 1822. 



18. CALVILLE ROUGE DE MICOUD. Hort. Trans. Vol. 

 v. p. 242. 



Fruit of the first crop, depressed, spherical, nearly three 

 inches in diameter, and about two inches deep ; three, or 

 more frequently four slight ridges divide it lengthways, and 

 give it a somewhat square outline. Stalk moderately thick, 

 rather long, placed in a funnel-shaped cavity. Eye placed 

 in the bottom of a hollow, scooped out like a funnel, and 

 larger than that in which the stalk is placed, the divisions of 

 the calyx remaining in part when the fruit is ripe. Skin of a 

 very deep, dull red on the side next the sun, but less intense 

 on the shaded side, where it is streaked by a few lines, and 



