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equal, from Christmas till May, to the old non- 

 pareil ; it is a very great bearer. 



We have not a better keeping table apple in 

 England. 



(27.) Yellow Ingestry Pippin ; this is a very 

 handsome small yellow table fruit, a good bearer, 

 and is in perfection about October. 



(28.) Hicks Fancy ; this is a most delicious 

 dessert apple, of small size, a very great bearer, 

 and will keep ; but it is best before Christmas. 



(29.) Old Golden Pippin; this apple as a 

 table fruit, is decidedly one of the best in this 

 country; although there are many apples far 

 superior to it in flavour before Christmas : it is 

 not excelled by any after, and consequently at a 

 season when most of our finest table apples are 

 gone by. I cannot pass over this fruit without 

 making a few observations, knowing an impres- 

 sion has been made on some gentlemen, that 

 the Golden Pippin is entirely wearing out, and 

 therefore useless to cultivate it ; in this I must 

 beg leave to differ: from my great practice 

 among apples, I am satisfied they are to be kept 

 in as flourishing a state as ever they were, for 



