80 APPLES* 



205. OLD QUINING. Pom. Heref. t. 19. 



Fruit oblong, having obtuse but prominent angles, ex- 

 tending from the base to the crown, where they correspond 

 to the number of the divisions of the calyx. Eye small, 

 with erect segments. Stalk half an inch long, slender. 

 Skin dull, dingy yellow, very much shaded with red, and of 

 a very high dark colour on the sunny side. 



Specific gravity of the Juice 1073. 



Ray, who wrote in the sixteenth century, mentions the 

 Queening Apple, and it has also been called Queening by 

 other writers ; but there seems to be no authority for this 

 orthography. It appears more probably to have originated 

 from Coi'y?, (often called Qwom,) from its angular sides. 

 The fruit is very good for table when first gathered from the 

 tree. As a cider apple it was formerly held in esteem ; but 

 more modern kinds seem, at the present day, to have usurped 

 its place. 



206. ORANGE PIPPIN. Pom. Heref. t. 8. 

 Marygold. Hort. Soc. Cat. 593. 



Isle of Wight Orange. J6. 484. 



Isle of Wight Pippin. Ibid. 



Fruit middle-sized, globular. Eye but little sunk, with 

 broad, acute segments of the calyx. Stalk very short. 

 Skin a yellowish golden gray, with a russetty epidermis, 

 highly coloured with orange and red on the sunny side. 



Specific gravity of the Juice 1074. 



This very beautiful apple is cultivated in Herefordshire, 

 both as a dessert and cider apple. Its yellow pulp commu- 

 nicates a fine golden tinge to the juice of other varieties, and 

 it is of itself an excellent cider fruit. 



Its name has originated, no doubt, from the appearance 

 of its fruit when highly ripened, resembling that of a crop of 

 very ripe Seville Oranges. There are trees now to be found 

 100 years old ; but where it originated cannot be ascer- 

 tained. 



It has been supposed by some that the Orange Pippin 

 was brought from Normandy to the Isle of Wight, and that 

 the first of the kind was planted in the garden of Wraxhall 

 Cottage, near the under cliff, where it was growing in 1817. 



207. PAWSAN. Pom. Heref. t. 15. 



Fruit above the middle size, pretty round, without angles ; 

 but sometimes it is rather oval. Crown but little hollow. 

 Eye small, with short reflexed segments of the calyx. Skin 

 dull muddy olive-green, a good deal reticulated with a fino 



