THE OSLIN APPLE. 



Oslin Apple. Hort. Soc. Fruit Catalogue, p. 134. 



Oslin Pippin. Nicol's Fruit and Kitchen Gardener, ed. 4. 



p. 255. Gardener's Calendar, ed. 4. p. 164. 

 Original Pippin, of some. 

 Oslin Pippin or Arbroath Pippin. Forsytes Treatise, ed. 7. 



p. 119. 

 Orgeline or Orgiline. Forsytes Treatise on Fruit Trees, 



ed.5.p. 119. 



This delicious variety is the best, except the 

 Kerry Pippin, of all the early autumn apples. It 

 ripens about the middle of August, and is remark- 

 able for its hardiness, beauty, and rich high-flavoured 

 flesh, which is strongly perfumed with the aroma 

 of anise : it possesses also the valuable property of 

 keeping much better than most of the fruits that 

 ripen about the same time. It is a great bearer ; 

 and if suffered to hang upon the tree until fully 

 ripe, and eaten immediately after being gathered, is 

 scarcely equalled by any apple of any season : in 

 short, it is indispensable to every fruit-garden, how- 

 ever small. 



There is a tradition that it was originally brought 

 to Scotland, from France, by the monks of the 

 Abbey of Arbroath in Angusshire, whence it is 



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