16 APPLES. 



from a fruit grown in the Horticultural garden at Chiswick 

 in 1830. 



34. Padley's Pippin. Hort. Trans. Yol. iii. p. 69. 

 Hort. Soc. Cat No. 720. Pom. Mag. t. 151. 



Fruit rather small, and somewhat flat, one inch and a half 

 deep, and two inches in diameter. Eye small, with a very 

 small closed calyx, placed in a shallow and rather angular 

 basin. Stalk three quarters of an inch long, very slender, 

 one half projecting beyond the base of the fruit. Skm pale, 

 dull yellow, very much covered with a rough gray russet, 

 and a little tinged with orange on the sunny side. Flesh 

 greenish yellowish, crisp. Juice saccharine, with a very 

 pleasant, aromatic flavour. A very neat and excellent des- 

 sert apple in November and DecemlDer. Raised about twen- 

 ty years ago by the late Mr. William Padley, gardener to His 

 Majesty, at Hampton Court, and first propagated by Mr. 

 Ronalds of Brentford. 



35. Philadelphia Pippin. G. Lind. Cat. 1815. 

 Ditchingham Pippin. lb. 



Fruit rather above the middle size, round, but somewhat 

 flat at the crown. Eye small. Stalk half an inch long, in- 

 serted in a rather deeply hollowed base. Skin yellowish 

 gray, with a faint blush on the sunny side. Flesh white. 

 Juice brisk and well flavoured. 



A culinary apple from Michaelmas to Christmas. An 

 American apple, brought into this country about seventy 

 years ago. Four of these trees are now growing in the gar- 

 dens of J. J. Bedingfeld, Esq. at Ditchingham Hafl, in Nor- 

 folk. They grow to a large size, are very hardy, and great 

 bearers. The fruit are, for the most part, produced singly 

 on the branches : they are, in consequence, always more 

 perfectly formed than those growing in clusters. 



36. PoMME DE Neige. Hovt. Soc. Cat. No. 626. 

 Fameuse. Forsyth, Ed. 3. No. 44. 



Fruit middle sized, round, not much unhke the shape of a 

 Nonesuch ; about two inches and a quarter deep, and two 

 inches and three quarters in diameter. Eye small, nearly 

 closed, in a shallow depression, surrounded by a few wrinkled 

 plaits. Stalk half an inch long, very slender, sunk in a fun- 

 nel-shaped cavity, and protruding but little beyond the base. 

 Skin pale green, tinged with pale red, and marked ^vith short 

 streaks of a darker colour ; on the sunny side, of a still deep- 

 er red. Flesh very tender, snow-white. Juice sugary, with 

 a slight musky perfume. 



