Colour, greenish-yellow with brown-red flush and stripes 

 and russet. Flesh, crisp, yellow, rich. Eye, open in 

 a shallow ribbed basin. Stem, long in a moderately 

 even cavity. Growth, moderate ; fertile. Leaf, 

 rather small, oval, bi-serrate. Origin, unknown. 

 Robert Thompson considered de Hanovre to be identical 

 with this. Now very little grown. 



PEASGOGD'S NONSUCH. Her. Pom., 61. F., 

 SaiiSpardlle -de Peasgood. Culinary and exhibition, 

 September to November, large, 3! by 2 , round flattened, 

 remarkably regular. Colour, golden-yellow with faint 

 flush arid a few broad broken stripes. Flesh, tender, 

 yellowish, of pleasant flavour and cooks frothily. Eye, 

 nearly closed in a deep round, even basin. Stem, 

 short in a very wide russet cavity. Growth, vigorous ; 

 fertile. Leaf, rather large, roundish, pea green, flat 

 lax, finely crenate, falls early, turns greenish-yellow. 

 Origin, raised by Mrs. Peasgood, of Stamford, in 1858, 

 from a seed of the Catshead Codlin. First fruited in 

 1872. The original tree is still growing at Stamford. 

 One of the most beautiful fruits grown ; first rate for 

 cooking. It makes a flat spreading tree. Rather 

 liable to canker. 



Peter the Great : see Cardinal. 

 Phillip's Seedling : see Cellini. 

 Pilot Russet : see Cockle's Pippin. 

 Pine Apple : see Lucombe's Pine. 



PINE APPLE RUSSET OF DEVON. Dessert, 

 September, fairly large, 2f by 2\, flat conical. Colour, 

 creamy-yellow, golden-red flush and thin russet patches 

 and veinings. Flesh, yellow, rather dry, rather hard, 

 pleasant flavour of pine. Growth, compact ; fertile. 

 Leaf, rather small, roundish, slightly upfolded, very 

 coarsely crenate, undulating. Origin, long grown in 

 Devonshire and Cornwall. A very distinct fruit. 



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