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THE DUTCH MIGNONNE APPLE. 



Dutch Mignonne. G. Lindley in Hort. Trans, vol. iv. p. 70. 

 Copmanthorpe Crab. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. 198. 

 Christ's Golden Reinette. Taschenbuch, p. 405. 

 Reinette doree. Mayer Pomona Franconica, t. xxx. 



Under the name of Reinette dor6e, or Golden 

 Reinette, are confounded at least four distinct 

 varieties; firstly, the 'true Golden Reinette of 

 England ; secondly, the Reinette dore"e of some 

 Dutch Gardens; thirdly, the Reinette dore"e of 

 Mayer's Pomona Franconica, which is the kind now 

 figured ; and fourthly, the Reinette doree of Duha- 

 mel, Knoop, and others, which is the Spate Gelbe 

 Reinette of the Germans. 



Of these four, the most valuable is undoubtedly 

 that now figured. It was originally made known 

 to English Gardeners by Mr. George Lindley, who 

 procured scions from the Garden of a Norfolk gen- 

 , tleman, by whom it had been imported from Hol- 

 land, and who, not knowing what it was, called it 

 the Dutch Mignonne. In Yorkshire it is known by 

 the name of the Copmanthorpe Crab, an appellation 

 which is better abandoned, as no one would expect 

 to find a Crab of the high excellence of this. 



It is one of our very best winter-fruits, being 

 very hardy, a great bearer, keeping well till March, 

 and retaining its beauty, (which is not at all ex- 

 aggerated in the accompanying figure,) along with 

 its fine aromatic subacid flavour, till the very last. 



