VI. LIST OF FRUITS. 



year 1817. It is a long apple, shaped somewhat like the 

 old English pearmain, beautifully striped red and white, 

 and ripe in the month of August. I have very few of 

 these. The apple whicfc succeeds this is the Fall Pippin, 

 and it continues to be good to eat until the middle of 

 November. Then comes the Greening, which continues 

 to be very good to eat until February ; and then comes 

 the Newtown Pippin, which, if properly preserved, is very 

 good to eat until the month of June. For my own part, 

 I should wish for no sorts but these, except I added 

 Conklins Pie nipple, the reputation of which is very great. 

 There is the Doctor Apple of exceeding beauty, and very 

 good until late in November -, but, indeed, after January 

 comes, there is no apple wanted either for eating raw or 

 cooking, but the Newtown Pippin, which, to the qualities 

 of fine relish and long keeping, adds the other great 

 quality of being a surprisingly great bearer. It hardly ever 

 totally fails, even when other trees do ; and it generally 

 has a large crop. I have a tree in my garden at Ken- 

 sington, which was covered with fruit in 1826. It stood 

 against a wall, and I was afraid that it would be killed 

 by a foul drain oozing through the wall from the out- 

 premises of one of my neighbours : I moved it, therefore, 

 in the month of April, 1 827, to another part of the gar- 

 den, and, large as it was, it is now (May, 1828) well-loaded 

 with fruit. I never saw any thing more beautiful than the 

 tree now is, whether in shoot, leaf, or fruit. The cut- 

 tings, which came from Mr. PLATT at North Hempstead, 

 were put upon the several little limbs of an old dwarf 

 standard-tree j but the whole now appears as if it had 

 been all from a young original stock. There are nume- 

 rous sorts of excellent American apples j but I do not 



