irregular. Colour, creamy yellow with faint stripes and 

 flush. Flesh, crisp juicy, slightly yellow, sub-acid, no 

 flavour. Growth, spreading. Leaf, medium, oval, 

 sharply pointed, held-up, much up-folded, much twisted, 

 coarsely serrate. Origin undiscovered. An award of 

 Merit was given to this variety in 1892 to Mr. Leach. 

 Not worthy of retention. 



ALFRISTON. Ronalds p. 35. (Shepherds Pippin, 

 Shepherds Seedling), culinary, keeps till April, large, 

 3i by 2f, round, conical, flattened, irregular. Colour, 

 green to yellow russet veined. Flesh, crisp, pale yellow, 

 sub-acid. Growth, vigorous, fertile. Leaf, pea green, 

 flat undulating, broadly serrate. Origin, raised by a 

 Mr. Shepherd at Alfriston, Sussex, about the end of the 

 eighteenth century. This apple cooks a tender, golden 

 brown with a delicious pear-like flavour. 



ALLENS EVERLASTING. Card. Chron. 1899, 

 p. 222. F., Eternelle d' Allen; G., Aliens Dauerapfel. 

 Dessert, April to May, z\ by if, flat, regular. Colour, 

 pale greenish-yellow, with brown red flush and russet 

 netting. Flesh, crisp and juicy, greenish, excellently 

 flavoured. Eye, large, open, in a wide angular basin. 

 Stem rather slender in a very wide and deep cavity. 

 Growth, dwarfish ; fertile. Leaf, small, oval, flat, finely 

 serrate. Origin, undiscovered ; said to be a seedling 

 from Sturmer Pippin. Known before 1870. One of the 

 best late dessert sorts. 



American Mother : see Mother. 



ALLINGTON PIPPIN. The Garden. 1906, 131. 

 (South Lincoln Pippin.) Dessert, October to December, 

 Medium, 2j by 2j, round, conical, regular. Colour, 

 lemon yellow slight red flush and faint stripes. Flesh, 

 crisp, juicy, pale yellow, sub-acid, pleasantly aromatic. 

 Eye, slightly open, very long, tips reflexed in a slightly 

 plaited, shallow basin. Stem medium in a moderately 

 deep, even cavity. Growth, vigorous ; very fertile. 

 Leaf, narrow oval, grey green, upfolded undulating, 



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