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THE COCKLE PIPPIN. 



Cockle Pippin. [lort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 169. 

 Nutmeg Cockle . ."] 



Nutmeg Pippin .. I of various Collections. 

 White Cockle....] 



A Sussex variety, much valued in the London 

 markets for the lateness to which it will keep sound 

 in the Spring, as well as for its good qualities 

 otherwise. 



A pretty good bearer as a standard, but rather 

 apt to canker. Hence it succeeds better upon a 

 Paradise stock, in a sheltered place. It ripens in 

 December. 



Sometimes the fruit is perfectly smooth, occa- 

 sionally^ it becomes russety ; and hence the idea has 

 arisen that there are two Cockle Pippins, the one 

 called the White, the other the Nutmeg. But all 

 Gardeners know how apt smooth fruit is to become 

 russety under particular circumstances, — and the 

 contrary. 



Shoots moderately strong, chestnut -coloured 

 next the sun, the shaded side having a tinge of 

 green ; the whole sprinkled with roundish white 

 spots. 



Leaves somewhat like those of a Nonpareil, 

 oval, inclining to ovate, acuminate, serrated. Pe- 

 tioles slender, longish, erect. Stipules linear, 

 lanceolate. 



