6 APPLES. 



10. Summer Golden Pippin. Hort. Soc. Cat. No, 

 393. Pom. Ma^r, t. 50. 



Fruit small, roundish-oblong, flattened at both ends. Eye 

 in a wide, shallow, even hollow. Stalk short, inserted in a 

 middle-sized cavity. Skin very smooth and shining ; on the 

 side next the sun bright yellow, tinged a little with orange, 

 wliich gradually fades away on the shaded side into a pale 

 lemon colour, and marked throughout with pale scattered 

 dots. Flesh whitish, iirm, very juicy, sweet and agreeable, 

 without perfume. 



Ripe the end of August, and will keep ten days or a fort- 

 night. 



A very beautiful and excellent little dessert apple. 



11. White Astracan. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 23. Pom. 

 Mag. t. 96. 



Glace de Zelande. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 366,, and of 

 foreign gardens, according to the Pom. J^Iag. 



Transparent de Moscovie. lb. according to the Pom. 

 Mag. and the Hort. Cat. 



Pyrus Astracanica, De Cancl. Prod. Vol. ii. p. 635. 



Fruit middle-sized, roundish, angular on the sides, and 

 ribbed at the apex. Eije depressed in a small hollow. Stalk 

 thick, and very short. Skin smooth, with a few faint streaks 

 of red on the sunny side, and covered with a white bloom. 

 Flesh snow-white, often transparent in part, tender, juicy, 

 crisp, very pleasant and delicate. 



Ripe in August, and will keep good for only a few days. 

 It is a hardy tree, and a very good bearer. It has been in- 

 troduced from Russia, where it is said to grow wild about 

 Astracan, and was first brought into notice by William At- 

 kinson, Esq. of Grove End, Paddington. 



Sect. II. — Summer. Conical or oblong. 



12. Doctor Helsham's Pippin. G. Lind. Cat. 1815. 

 Fruit middle-sized, more long than broad, eight or nine 



inches in circumference, a little angular on the sides. Eye 

 small, in a rather wide and oblique basin. Stalk half an inch 

 long, deeply inserted. Skin yellovi^ish green, with several 

 reddish spots ; on the sunny side of a fine clear red. Flesh 

 white. Juice sweet, with a slight aromatic flavour. 



Ripe in August and beginning of September. 



The branches of this tree droop in the manner of a Jargo- 

 nelle Pear. It is an abundant bearer, and deserves cultivation. 



