APPLES. 17 



A dessert apple in October and November. Introduced 

 from Canada, by Mr. Barclay of Brompton. It is said to 

 derive its name from a village where it is cultivated. 



37. POTTER'S LARGE APPLE. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 805. 

 Fruit one of the largest size, generally eleven or twelve 



inches in circumference, irregularly formed, with large ob- 

 tuse angles on the sides. Eye wide, deep, surrounded with 

 large plaits, the alternate ones being much the most promi- 

 nent. Stalk an inch long, inserted in a deep cavity. Skin 

 pale green, thinly sprinkled with gray specks, and tinged with 

 faint red near the base on the sunny side. Flesh white. 

 Juice not plentiful, sub-acid. 



A culinary apple from Michaelmas to Christmas ; raised 

 it is said by a Mr. Potter of Chelsea. A transverse section 

 of it, when cut open, exhibits a large, five-angled cavity. 



38. RED INGESTRIE. Hort. Trans. Vol. i. p. 227. 

 Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 481. Pom. Mag. t. 17. 



Fruit roundish, oblong, about the size of a large Golden 

 Pippin, with a small calyx, and hollow open eye, wholly des- 

 titute of angles. Stalk short, slender. Skin bright yellow, 

 deeply tinged with red on the sunny side, with many indis- 

 tinct white spots. Flesh yellowish, firm, juicy, and rich, 

 nearly as highly flavoured as that of the Golden Pippin. 



An excellent and beautiful dessert apple, ripening the end 

 of October, but not in perfection after having been gathered 

 a few weeks. 



This and the yellow Ingestrie sprang from two seeds taken 

 from the same cell of an Orange Pippin, which had been im- 

 pregnated with the pollen of the Old Golden Pippin. They 

 were raised by T. A. Knight, Esq. about 1800, and planted 

 at Wormsley Grange, in Herefordshire. Their name is de- 

 rived from the seat of the Earl Talbot, in Staffordshire. 

 They were first noticed in the Hort. Trans, in March, 1811. 



39. SCARLET CROFTON. Hort. Trans. Vol. iii. p. 453. 

 Fruit middle sized, flattish, about two inches and a half 



in diameter, and two deep, somewhat angular on the sides. 

 Eye wide, but shallow. Stalk short, sometimes bent. Skin 

 yellowish russet, of a bright red intermixed with russet on the 

 sunny side. Flesh firm, crisp, never becoming mealy. Juice 

 plentiful, of a rich saccharine flavour. An Irish dessert ap- 

 ple, ripening in October, and continuing till Christmas. 



40. STRIPED HOLLAND PIPPIN. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 

 1075. 



Fruit pretty large, of a very regular figure, nearly as broad 

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