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specific variety than any other apple with which I am ac- 

 quainted. 



72. BLENHEIM PIPPIN. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 81. Pom. 

 Mag. t. 28. 



Blenheim Orange. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 81. 



Woodstock Pippin. Ib. 



Fruit large, of a roundish figure, rather broadest at the 

 base, two and a half to three inches deep, and three to four 

 inches across the widest part. Eye very hollow and open, 

 but slightly angular. Skin yellowish, stained on the sunny 

 side with dull red, intermixed with streaks of deeper colour. 

 Flesh yellow, breaking, sweet, juicy, extremely pleasant, and 

 high flavoured. 



A dessert apple from November till March. This is one 

 of the largest of our table apples. It was raised in a garden 

 belonging to a baker at Old Woodstock, near Oxford, a short 

 distance from Blenheim. 



73. BORSDORFF. Knoop. Pom. p. 56. t. 10. 

 Borsdoffer. Ib. 



Reinette batarde. Ib. 



Postophe d'Hiver. Bon. Jard. 1827, p. 323. 



Postdoff. Ib. 



BursdofF, or Queen's Apple. Forsyth, Ed. 3. No. 15. 



Fruit below the middle size, of a roundish figure, rather 

 narrower at the crown than the base. Eye small, a little 

 sunk. Stalk half an inch long, slender. Skin pale yellow, 

 marked with various ramifications of a gray russeted network, 

 interspersed with a few dark-coloured specks ; when fully 

 exposed to the sun it is of a beautiful brilliant red, extending 

 nearly round its base. Flesh yellowish white, firm, crisp. 

 Juice sugary, with a singularly musky perfume. 



A dessert apple from November till February. This is a 

 German apple of very excellent quality. 



74. BRICKLEY SEEDLING. Pom. J\Iag. t. 124. 



Fruit about the size of the Scarlet Nonpareil ; roundish, 

 becoming a little narrower towards the crown. Eye small, 

 open, placed in an evenly-formed, not very deep depression. 

 Stalk short, inserted in a rather large, even cavity. Skin red 

 next the sun, and a deep yellow on the shaded side, towards 

 which the red breaks off in slight streaks. Flesh firm, yel- 

 lowish, sugary, rich and of excellent quality. 



A very handsome dessert apple from December till May. 

 The tree is very hardy, and a profuse bearer, either as a stan- 

 dard or dwarf, highly deserving of cultivation. 



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