88 THE APPLE. 



This admirable fruit is to our taste unsurpassed in flavour of 

 any of its season, strikingly suggestive of the flavour and perfume 

 of an excellent pear, with more of vinous life than the Vandevere 

 (Xewtown Spitzenburgh), and lees acidity than the Esopus 

 Spitzenburgh, and not inferior to either of them as a dessert fruit. 



Mother. 



Monmouth Pippin, 



A native of Monmouth County, New Jersey, of moderate up- 

 right growth, and productive. Fruit large, oblate, a little in- 

 clining to conic, obscurely five-angled, slightly flattened at base 

 and crown. Skin pale yellow, with a beautiful warm cheek, and 

 numerous russet dots. Stalk rather short, inserted in a large 

 slightly russeted cavity. Calyx partially closed; basin deep, 

 abrupt, and corrugated. Flesh juicy, with a fine brisk aromatic 

 flavour. November to March. 



Newtown Pippin. Coxe. Thomp. 



Green Newtown Pippin. American Newtown Pippin. 

 Green "Winter Pippin. Petersburgh Pippin. 



The Newtown Pippin stands at the head of all apples, and is, 

 when in perfection, acknowledged to be unrivalled in all the 



