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interspersed with slight streaks of a darker colour. Flesh 

 greenish white, firm. Juice sub-acid, without any appa- 

 rent saccharine property. 



A very excellent culinary apple from November till April. 



150. Ord's Apple. Hort. Trans. Vol. ii. p. 285. t. 19. 

 Simpson's Pippin. lb. 



Simpson's Seedling. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 1043. 



Fruit middle-sized, of an oblong ovate shape, with the 

 base and crown depressed, from two inches and a half to 

 three inches deep, and two inches and a quarter in diame- 

 ter at the base. Fije small, with a short connivent calyx, 

 in a very shallow basin, surrounded by some irregular plaits, 

 the natural number of which is five. Stalk three quarters 

 of an inch long. Skin thick, always green while on the tree, 

 tinged with copper-coloured red, with several darker spots 

 on the sunny side. Flesh firm. Juice rich and per- 

 fumed. 



A dessert apple from December till March. 



Raised some years ago by Mrs. Anne Simpson, sister- 

 in-law of John Ord, Esq., from the seed of an apple grown 

 in his garden at Purser's Cross, near Fulham, the produce 

 of a tree he had raised from a Newtown Pippin, which 

 he had imported from America about the year 1777. 



151. Ortley Apple. Hort. Trans. Vol. vi. p. 415. 

 Fruit very much resembling the yellow Newtown Pippin, 



but a little more oval. Eye large and well formed, not 

 deeply sunk, and surrounded by many small folds or plaits. 

 Stalk slender, inserted in a deep and even-formed cavity. 

 Skin bright clear yellow where shaded, and of a bright scar- 

 let, sprinkled with a few russetty spots on the sunny side. 

 Flesh inclining to yellow, crisp and breaking. Juice plenti- 

 ful, with the same fine flavour which distinguishes the New- 

 town Pippin. 



A dessert apple from November till April. 



This most excellent variety is a native of New-Jersey, 

 in North America. Specimens of it were sent from thence 

 to the Horticultural Society, and exhibited at the meetings 

 of the 1st and 15th of March, 1825.* 



* The fruit of the Ortley Apple was sent to the Hort. Soc. of London, as above, 

 by me, and for which I received the silver medal. I'he grafts of this excellent 

 apple were given to me by Mr. Michael Ortley, Esq. of New- York, from his or- 

 chard in South Jersey. There are, in addition to the description given above, 

 some particulars which distinguish it from a Nesvtown Pippin, from which it is 

 very distinct, though not inferior to that most excellent apple. In opening a box 

 or barrel of the apples in the spring of the year, they emit a fine peculiar fragrance 

 like that of roses. It is an American apple of superior excellence, worthy of ge- 

 neral cultivation. .^m. Ed, 



