40 APPLES. 



inches deep, and three or three and a half inches in diameter. 

 Eye rather large, open, with a very short calyx, placed in a 

 flat shallow basin, surrounded by a few rather slight obtuse 

 plaits. Stalk three quarters of an inch long, slender, insert- 

 ed in a shallow cavity, one half of which protrudes beyond 

 the base. Flesh almost white, firm. Juice smart, sub-acid. 

 A culinary apple from November till March. 



102. MINIER'S DUMPLING. Hort. Trans. Vol. i. p. 70. 

 Fruit large, from three to three inches and a half in dia- 



meter, but not so deep ; contracted at the crown, depressed, 

 and swelled into a few imperfect angles on its sides. Stalk 

 an inch long, rather thick. Skin deep green, striped with a 

 still deeper on the shaded side, and of a dark red next the 

 sun. Flesh firm. Juice plentiful, sub-acid, with a very 

 pleasant flavour. 



A very good culinary apple from November till May. 



103. NEWTOWN PIPPIN. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 635. 

 American Newtown Pippin. Ib. 



Fruit middle sized, rather flat, and somewhat irregular in 

 its outline, having broad, obtuse, unequal ribs, which increase 

 from the base, becoming more prominent at the crown ; about 

 two inches and a quarter deep, and three inches in diameter. 

 Eye open? with a very short slender calyx, which leaves the 

 eye nearly naked, deeply sunk in a somewhat oblique cavity. 

 Stalk half an inch long, slender, wholly sunk within the base, 

 in a wide, funnel-shaped cavity. Skin of a dull green, chang- 

 ing to an olive yellow, becoming more yellow as it acquires 

 maturity, having a thin russet covering the greatest part of 

 the base. Flesh pale yellow, or yellowish white 1 , firm. Juice 

 saccharine, and possessing an exceedingly rich and highly 

 aromatic flavour. 



In eating from December till April.* 



104. NEWTOWN SPITZEMBERG. Pom. JUag. t. 144. 

 Newtown Spitzemberg. Coxe's Vieiv, p. 126., according 



to the Pom. Mag. 



Matchless. Hort. Soc. Cat. 597., according to the Pom. 

 Mag. 



Fruit middle sized, depressed, globular, not angular, bear- 

 ing much resemblance in shape to a Nonesuch, about two 



* The Newtown Pippin, when perfectly matured, is undoubtedly the richest fla- 

 voured and finest apple known ; it may be distinguished from the Rhode Island 

 Greening, and indeed from any other sort, by a slight starry appearance, of light 

 yellow and green rays round the stem ; the branches are very slender and delicate, 

 the tree of much slower growth than most others, the bark having a rough uppear- 

 ance, and may easily be distinguished in the orchard from any other kind. 







