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September comes, and brings with it the Kerry Pippin (fig. 230), 

 which has a semi-transparent skin and a yellowish flesh, and also a 

 , fine flavour. The Kerry Pippin is succeeded by Gravenstcin (fig. 231), 

 which is another delicious apple for the season: towards the end of 

 the month the Ribston Pippin, King of the Pippins, 

 and Pitmaston Pineapple Pippin give us their 

 delicious fruit. The Ribston (fig. 232) is one of 

 the finest of all apples, and may be kept, if well 

 ripened, till the following June : it has a peculiar 

 flavour, due to an ether, which modern chemistry l 

 lias been able to make in the laboratory. Every garden should have 

 one or t\vo large standard trees of this variety, as it is capricious in 

 its bearing. The tree likes to grow in rich deep loam : I have tried 

 it on its own roots, but this plan appears to have no advantage. 

 The King of the Pippins (fig. 233) is a great 

 bearer, though it is an inferior apple : never- 

 theless a garden should have one tree of this 

 variety. The Pitmaston Pineapple is little known, 

 but I have found it second to none in culti- 

 vation. It is not too large, is very sugary and 

 highly flavoured, and is one of the best of all 

 apples. With me it frequently bears prodigiously ; but, when it does 

 so, I obtain no crop the next year. No garden should be without 

 this apple, but I was unable this year to procure any specimen from 

 which to give an illustration, although I sent to every probable 

 source. 



From the middle of October till the middle of November the Rib- 

 ston alone should be used. December gives us the Cornish Gilliflower, 

 one of the finest of all apples (fig. 234). It has a yellowish flesh, 

 and its flavour is most delicious ; but the tree is so indifferent a 

 bearer near London, that we can never depend upon a crop, although 

 I have at least half-a-dozen trees. The mode of growth of this tree 

 is peculiar, as it throws out long slim branches, and frequently it 

 bears at the ends of the branches. It does not bear priming, and 



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