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A culinary apple, from November till March. It bakes 

 of a fine, clear amber colour, perfectly melting, with a rich 

 acidity. An old tree of it is growing in the neighbourhood 

 of Downham Market, in Norfolk, from which specimens of 

 the fruit were exhibited at the Horticultural Society, in 1820. 



93. GOLDEN REINETTE. Pom. Mag. t. 69. Hort. Soc. 

 Cat. No. 26. 



tr 11 *r^ T f of some foreign collections. 



Yellow German Remette, \ J 4. ., 



English Pippin, > ^or dmg to the POK, 



Wyker Pippin, ) 



Fruit below the middle size, roundish, depressed. Eye 

 large, open, seated in a broad shallow basin. Stalk an inch 

 long, moderately thick. Skin usually smooth, with a few 

 minute russetty spots ; in the shade greenish yellow, chang- 

 ing to a golden yellow, with a dull red cheek slightly streak- 

 ed with brighter red. Flesh yellow, crisp, with a rich sugary 

 juice. 



A beautiful and most excellent dessert apple, from Octo- 

 ber to February. 



This has been many years in our gardens. It is better 

 known and more common in the London markets than in any 

 other part of England. It is highly deserving of cultivation. 



94. GREEN NEWTOWN PIPPIN. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 

 636. 



Fruit middle sized, about two inches or two and a quarter 

 deep, and two inches and a half or two and three quarters in 

 diameter, tapering a little from the base to the crown, where 

 it is terminated by five obtuse but prominent angles. Eye 

 small, closed by the segments of the calyx, moderately sunk 

 in a narrow plaited basin. Stalk one inch long, slender, in- 

 serted in a narrow deep cavity. Skin thick, dark green quite 

 round the fruit, mottled with pale green at the base, where it 

 has a dull dark olive colour surrounding the stalk. Flesh 

 greenish white, firm, crisp. Juice saccharine, with a brisk 

 acid, and a slight aromatic flavour.* 



A dessert apple from December tijl May or June. Late- 

 ly sent to this country by David Hosack, M.D. of New-York. 



95. HOLLAND PIPPIN. Miller, No. 8. 



Fruit above the middle size, of a somewhat square figure, 

 being nearly as broad at the crown as the base, and a little 

 angular on its sides, about two inches and a half deep, and 



* This is no doubt our Rhode Island Greening, a description of which will be 

 found among the additional American Apples, at the end of this list. Am. Ed. 



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