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APPLES. 



142. Hubbard's Pearmain. G. Lindl, in Hort. Trans, 

 Vol. iv. p. 68. Pom. Mag. t. 27. 



Golden Vining, of Devonshire. According to the Pom. 

 Mag. lb. 



Fruit small, ovate, about two inches deep, and the same 

 in diameter, free from angles. Eye small, close, with a 

 very short calyx, slightly depressed. Stalk short. Skin 

 pale russet, or cinnamon colour, with a little green or red 

 breaking through it here and there ; in some specimens, 

 particularly in warm seasons, of an uniform, clear, yellowish 

 green, without russet, mottled and tinged with orange or 

 pale red on the sunny side. Flesh yellow, firm, rather 

 dry. Juice sweet, rich, of a most highly perfumed aromatic 

 flavour. 



A dessert apple from October till March or April. 



143. KiiNTisH Pippin. Miller, Ed. 8. No. 11. 

 Fi'uit above the middle size, of an oblong figure, slightly 



angular on its sides, tapering a little from the base to the 

 crown, which is rather narrow. Eije small, with a closed 

 calyx, a little sunk, and surrounded by several obtuse plaits. 

 Stalk half an inch long, slender, not protruding beyond the 

 base. Skin pale yellow, with a few scattered greenish 

 specks ; on the sunny side pale dull brown. Flesh yellow- 

 ish white. Juice sweetish, or sub-acid, with a smart pun- 

 gent flavour. 



An excellent culinary apple from October till January. 



144. KiNELLAN Apple. Hort. Trans. Vol. vii. p. 

 338. 



The skin is a clear pale green, very little dotted, but 

 strongly coloured with yellowish bright red on the exposed 

 side. The eye is rather angular ; the stalk downy ; the 

 jlesh white, firm, rather juicy, and pleasant. 



A pleasant table apple, in season in Ross-shire from the 

 beginning of December till January, and will keep till 

 March. 



This is an offspring between the Nonpareil and Manx 

 Codlin, obtained by Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, Bart., 

 ofCoul, near Dingwall, in Ross-shire ; it produced its first 

 fruit in 1825. In size the apple resembles the Manx Cod- 

 lin, and in appearance and other qualities the Nonpareil. 



144.^ Lamb Abbey Pearmain. Hort. Trans. Vol. v. 

 p. 269. t. 10. f. 2. 



Fruit middle-sized, oval, somewhat pyramidal, rather 

 flattened at both ends, about three inches deep, and two 



