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THE OLD NONPAREIL APPLE. 



Nonpareil. Switzer's Fruit Gardener. Langley's Pomona, 

 t. 79,/. 4. Duhamel, Traite, no. 35, 1. 12. f. 2. Forsy>th's 

 Treatise, edit. 7, p. 117. Hort. Cat. no. 664. 



Nonpareil d'Angleterre. Hort. Soc. Cat. no. 647. 



Hunt's Nonpareil. Ibid. no. 659. 



Loveden's Pippin. Ibid. no. 573. 



Griine Reinette, of the Germans. 



Reinette Non-pareil, or Nonpareille. Knoop, Pomolog. 

 p. 51, t. 9. 



Perhaps this is, of all the Apples we know, the 

 most general favourite with persons of every taste, 

 on account of its peculiar agreeable brisk flavour, 

 and the length of time it keeps. 



Switzer, who wrote of it in 1724, speaks thus: 

 " The Nonpareil shall bring up the rear in this list 

 of Apples, being a fruit so deservedly valued for the 

 briskness of its taste, the lovely russet of its coat, 

 so much improved if exposed to the sun, that even 

 the colour equals the finest russets, and the taste is 

 incomparably better. This Apple is no stranger in 

 England, though it might have had its original in 

 France; yet there are trees of them about the 

 Ashtons, in Oxfordshire, of about a hundred years 

 old, which (as they have it by tradition) were first 

 brought out of France, and planted by a Jesuit, in 

 Queen Mary's or Queen Elizabeth's time. The great 

 improvement that is made to the bearing of this 

 fruit, as well as Golden Pippins, on Paradise stocks, 



