APPLES. 19 



43. WORMSLET PIPPIN. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 1183. 

 Pom. Mag. t. 80. 



Knight's Codlin, of some collections* according to the Pom. 

 Mag. 



Fruit middle sized, globular, slightly angular. Eye deep- 

 ly sunk, surrounded by small plaits. Stalk about an inch 

 long, deeply inserted. Skin pale green on the shaded side, 

 brown next the sun. Flesh white, firm, crisp, juicy, with a 

 lively sugared juice. 



Ripens the beginning of September, and remains in perfec- 

 tion till the end of October. This is an excellent autumnal 

 fruit, bearing well, and having a firm, high-flavoured flesh, 

 resembling in quality that of the Newtown Pippin. It de- 

 rives its name from Wormsley Grange, a country seat where 

 Mr. Knight formerly resided. The first account of it is to 

 be found in the Horticultural Transactions, communicated 

 by Mr. Knight, in March, 1811. 



44. WYKEN PIPPIN. Loud. Gard. Mag. 



Fruit rather below the middle size, round, somewhat flat- 

 tened both at the base and the crown, about two inches deep, 

 and two inches and a half in diameter. Eye rather small, 

 open, naked, with but little of the remaining calyx, placed in 

 a shallow, regularly formed basin. Stalk short, not deeply 

 inserted. . Skin yellowish green, interspersed with several 

 small gray specks, and a little tinged with pale dull brown on 

 the sunny side. Flesh greenish yellow, firm, crisp. Juice 

 sugary, with a little musky perfume. A very neat dessert 

 apple from October to December. The original tree, a very 

 old one, or the trunk of it, with a strong sucker from its root, 

 was growing in May, 1827, at its native place, Wyken, two 

 miles from Coventry. The seed, it is said, was planted by 

 a Lord Craven, who brought it from a fruit he had eaten on 

 his travels from France to Holland. All the cottagers round 

 Wyken have from two to twelve trees each of this apple in 

 their gardens, and it is a great favourite throughout the whole 

 county of Warwick. 



45. YELLOW INGESTRIE. Hort. Trans. Vol. i. p. 227. 

 Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 482. 



Fruit small, shaped much like the Old Golden Pippin. 

 Eye very small, flat. Stalk half an inch, rather deeply in- 

 serted, just protruding beyond the base. Skin bright gold, 

 with a few pearly specks imbedded. Flesh yellowish white, 

 very tender and delicate. Juice plentiful, rich, and highly 

 flavoured. A beautiful little dessert apple in October and 



