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DESCRIPTIONS 



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80. RIDGED PIPPIN Plate 55. 



Fruit of the incdinm size, wiile at tlie l)asc, lidgeil, circular. Color yellow, greenish 

 aroiiiul llie base, variegated with a. few red spots. Stem eqiialling the base and set in a 

 wide depression. Calyx rather large; depression small and shallow, plaited, plaits 

 prominent, numerous, and extending over the sides. Skin thick. Flesh yellowish 

 white, firm subacid. Core small. 

 The ridded pippin is a fine fruit, and was exhibited at New- York by Mr. John Perkins. 



It is a late fall apple. 



81. FRENCH PIPPIN. Plate 45, Fig. 1. Fig. 28. 



Fruit above the medium size, 



circular, symmetrical. Color \\ \ / 



green, yellowish green en- / A V 



livened with afew red blotches / \ 



around the base. Stem short, 

 rising half way to the base ; 

 depression wide. Calyx small 

 and inclosed in deep depres- 

 sion. Core small. Flesh yel- 

 lowish, tart and juicy. 

 A good second rate apple. \ / 



Exhibited at the Horticultural \ yT^^^ 



Rooms in Albany, January 1849. 



Late fall or early winter. 



82. SUMMER BROADEN. 

 Sumtner Co/mar. 

 Fruit above the medium size, sub-angular. Color dull green, and tinged with a dull 

 brown on the sunny side. Stem short and slender, subequaling the base ; deeply in- 

 serted, Calyx small and closed ; depression narrow. Flesh greenish white, subacid. 

 An English apple well known in the county of Norfolk. 



83. WALTHAM ABBEY SEEDLING (Hort. Trans. Vol. v, p. 269). 

 Fruit of the medium size, globular. Color pale yellow, and deepens as the fruit ripens, 

 and becomes enlivened with deep scarlet on the sunny side ; skin specked with greenish 

 dots, and patched with russet near the stem. Flesh yellowish, soft, juicy and sweet. 

 An English seedling, which ripens in October and keeps till rhristmas. 



