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writer whatever, either in this or any other country. In fa- 

 vourable situations, in many parts of the country, instead of 

 the trees being in a state of rapid decay, they may be found 

 of unusually large size, perfectly healthy, and their crops 

 abundant ; the fruit perfect in form, beautiful in colour, and 

 excellent in quality. 



Ripe in October, and will keep two months, or till past 

 Christmas.* 



27. HAWTHORNDEN. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 440. Pom. 

 Mag. t. 34. 



White Hawthornden. Nicol's Fr. Gard. p. 256. Ac- 

 cording to the Pom. Mag. 



Fruit above the middle size, rather irregularly formed, 

 generally about three inches in diameter in one direction, and 

 three inches and a quarter in another. When this irregula- 

 rity happens, for it is not always the case, it arises from a 

 broad protuberant rib, which extends from the base to the 

 crown. This has occasioned the Hawthornden to be repre- 

 sented in the figure quoted above as having a cleft on its side ; 

 but neither this nor yet any other apple has one naturally. 

 Sutures, or channels in fruit, are no where to be found, ex- 

 cept in those which are termed drupaceous, or stone fruit. 

 Its depth is from two inches and a quarter to two inches arid 

 a half. Eye rather small, with a converging calyx, rather 

 deep, and surrounded by a few obtuse plaits. Stalk half an 

 inch long, slender, rather deeply inserted. Skin very smooth, 

 white, of a very pale greenish yellow, sometimes a little tin- 

 ged with a blush on the sunny side towards the base. Flesh 

 white. Juice plentiful, and well flavoured. 



An excellent culinary fruit from Michaelmas to Christmas. 

 This is a very valuable apple, and a most excellent bearer. 

 The extreme buds are mostly blossom buds, which occasion 

 the branches to become pendulous when the fruit is fully 

 grown. It is said to have originated at Hawthornden, near 

 Edinburgh, where Drummond the poet was born. 



28. HOARY MORNING. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 455. Pom. 

 Mag. t. 53. 



* The English Golden Pippin grows with delicate small shoots, and is not cal- 

 culated for an orchard ; but if properly managed, it makes a beautiful espalier tree, 

 and is an abundant bearer; the fruit is small, but handsomely shaped, the flavour 

 excellent, and not inferior to any raised in Europe. In this country it should 

 be grafted on paradise stocks, and planted in rather a shady part of the garden, or 

 at least not exposed to the full sun, and trained in the fan shape. The apple is not 

 much known in this country ; the kind called here Golden Pippin, is a very different 

 fruit. Am. Ed. 



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