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with a thin gray russet. Flesh white, firm, and crisp. Juice 

 brisk and well flavoured. 



A beautiful dessert apple, from November till March. 



69.* BELVOIR PIPPIN. Hort. Soc. Garden. 



Fruit small, about the size, and very much the figure, of 

 the Old Golden Pippin : about one inch and a half deep, and 

 the same in diameter. Eye small, closed ; the long and al- 

 most linear segments of the calyx, in a very shallow depres- 

 sion, surrounded by about fifteen very narrow plaits, three to 

 each segment. Stalk three quarters of an inch long, slen- 

 der, slightly sunk in an open, shallow, funnel-shaped cavity. 

 Skin pale yellow ; on the sunny side spotted and tinged with 

 brownish crimson, and having a portion of thin russet round 

 the stalk. Flesh pale yellow, firm, crisp, very tender and 

 delicate. Juice saccharine, mixed with a slight brisk acid, 

 rich, and very highly flavoured. 



A dessert apple, in perfection in November and Decem- 

 ber. It -ought to be grafted upon the Doucin stock, and 

 trained in the garden either as an open dwarf, or as an es- 

 palier. 



70. BIGGS'S NONESUCH. Hort. Trans. Vol. i. p. 70. 



Fruit middle sized, in shape and general appearance some- 

 what like the Nonesuch, but broader at the base ; moderate- 

 ly depressed about the foot-stalk, and very hollow at the 

 crown, where the segments of the calyx remain long, and 

 rolled back. Stalk one quarter of an inch within the base. 

 Skin -gold colour, on the side next the sun dashed with long, 

 broad, scarlet stripes. Flesh soft, pale yellow. Juice very 

 good, and excellent to eat as soon as gathered off the tree. 



A culinary apple also, from October to December. 



71. BIRMINGHAM PIPPIN. Nursery Catalogues. 

 Brummage Pippin, V f Nurseries. 



* Grummage Pippin, ) J 



Fruit small, about six inches in circumference, nearly glo- 

 bular, a little flattened at the crown, and having somewhat 

 the appearance of a Golden Pippin. Eye small. Stalk very 

 short, inserted in a very shallow cavity. Skin pale green 

 when fresh gathered, becoming pale yellow, spotted and 

 marbled with a thin russet. Flesh very hard and firm, pale 

 green. Juice sub-acid, of a pleasant flavour. 



A very neat dessert apple, from December to June. The 

 branches are short and very stout, and its fruit is of a greater 



* No. 69 is inserted twice, in consequence of the Belvoir Pippin having been seat 

 me after the numerical arrangement had been completed. 



