Colour, greenish-yellow, almost covered with faint 

 red stripes and flush. Flesh, loose, juicy, greenish- 

 yellow, of good flavour. Eye, very small, closed in a 

 shallow ribbed basin. Stem, very long, slender in a 

 very wide and deep cavity, faintly russet veined. 

 Growth, upright, compact ; only moderately fertile. 

 Leaf, oval, nearly flat, undulating. Origin, at the 

 orchard of Mr. R. Humphrey, East Bloomfield, New 

 York, soon after 1840. This apple only does well in 

 England in very favourable years. 



Northwick Pippin : see Blenheim Orange. 



NUTMEG PIPPIN. (Cockles Pippin (error).) Des- 

 sert, till March, small, 2 by 2, flattened conical, irregular. 

 Colour, pale yellow almost covered with cinnamon 

 russet, with faint brown red flush. Flesh, crisp, pale 

 yellow, juicy and pleasantly flavoured. Eye, open in 

 a shallow basin which has prominent knobs. Stem, 

 very short in a very narrow, shallow russet cavity. 

 Growth, slender ; fairly fertile. Origin, unrecorded. 

 Lindley considered this to be the same as Cockles 

 Pippin, but the fruit grown in Kent is quite distinct. 

 A nice little fruit in March. 



Ohio Nonpareil : see Gravenstein. 



Okera : see Akero. 



Old Hawthornden : see Hawthornden. 



Old Lady : see Golden Knob. 



Old Maid : see Golden Knob. 



ONTARIO. New York, L, 240. Culinary or 

 dessert, till April, medium, 2f by 2, flat, irregular. 

 Colour, pale yellow with bright red flush and faint 

 stripes. Flesh, crisp, juicy, pale yellow, sub-acid. 

 Eye, very small in a broad rather deep basin. Stem, 

 moderately long, rather slender in an extremely wide 



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