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inches three quarters in diameter. Eye small, sunk in a 

 deep and broad hollow, surrounded by regular but slight 

 plaits, which do not extend to the body of the fruit. Stalk 

 short, deeply inserted. Skin yellowish green on the shaded 

 side and next the eye ; the sunny side being covered with 

 a handsome red, having many black dots, in the manner of 

 an ordinary Golden Reinette. Flesh yellowish next the 

 skin, green next the core, firm, crisp, very juicy, with a 

 peculiar rich sweetness, and a light aromatic flavour. 



An excellent dessert fruit from December till March. 



This very valuable apple was raised, in 1803, from a ker- 

 nel of the Newtown Pippin, by Mrs. Malcolm, the lady of 

 Neil Malcolm, Esq., of Lamb Abbey, in Kent. 



145. LEMON PIPPIN. HorL Soc. Cat. No. 550. Pom. 

 Mag. t. 37. 



Lemon Pippin. Forsyth, Ed. 3. No. 102. 



Fruit middle-sized, oval, very regularly formed, without 

 angles, about two inches and three quarters in diameter, and 

 three inches deep. Eye small, open, with a very short slen- 

 der calyx, slightly depressed. Stalk short, fleshy, curved 

 inwards, and forming a continuance of the fruit, in the man- 

 ner of a lemon ; hence its name. Skin pale yellowish green, 

 becoming yellow when ripe, with neither red nor russet. 

 Flesh firm, breaking. Juice not abundant, nor highly 

 flavoured, but very pleasant. 



A dessert fruit from October till March. 



A very hardy orchard apple ; the tree grows erect, very 

 regularly formed, and handsome, and is a most excellent 

 bearer. 



146. NEW ROCK PIPPIN. HorL Trans. Yol. v. p. 

 269. 



Fruit of the Nonpareil kind, but less regular in shape, 

 and the eye sunk a little deeper. Stalk short. Skin of a 

 dull green on the shaded side ; on the part exposed to the 

 sun, it becomes brown, with a slight tinge of red, and the 

 whole surface sprinkled with russet. Flesh yellow, firm, 

 not very juicy, but rich and sweet, with a fine anise per- 

 fume. 



A dessert apple from November till April. 



Raised by Mr. Pleasance of Barnwell, near Cambridge. 

 It keeps late in the spring, and is then hardly surpassed by 

 any of the old varieties. Exhibited at the Horticultural So- 

 ciety, November 20, 1821. 



