APPLES. 5 



Magdalene. Ray (1688), No. 2. 



Fruit below the middle size, two inches and a quar- 

 ter in diameter, and two inches deep, slightly angular 

 on its sides. Eye small, with a closed calyx, placed 

 in a narrow basin, surrounded by several unequal plaits. 

 Stalk short, slender, in a funnel-shaped cavity, even 

 with the base. Skin pale yellow, with numerous small 

 pearl-coloured imbedded specks, and slightly tinged 

 with orange on the sunny side. Flesh white, very crisp 

 and tender. Juice plentiful, saccharine, and highly 

 perfumed. 



A dessert apple, of first-rate excellence, from the 

 middle of August to the end. 



This is the true Margaret apple of MILLER, and has 

 been in our gardens since the time of RAY, in 1688 ; 

 but it is not the Margaret of Forsyth, and of many col- 

 lections of the present day (See No. 13). The tree is 

 readily known from every other variety of apple, by its 

 upright growth, by its short erect branches, and by the 

 excessive pubescence of its leaves. 



6. OSLIN. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 5. ; Pom. Mag. 

 t. 5. 



Oslin Pippin. Nicol Ed. 4. p. 164. 



Oslin, or Arbroath Pippin. Forsyth. Ed. J. p. 119. 



Orgeline, or Orjeline. Ib. Ed. 5. p. 119. 



Fruit roundish, depressed, without angles. Eye 

 rather prominent, with a few moderately sized plaits. 

 Stalk short, thick, not deeply inserted. Skin very thick 

 and tough, pale bright lemon colour when fully ripe, 

 intermixed with a little bright green, and sprinkled with 

 numerous spots of the same. Flesh inclining to yellow, 

 firm, crisp, juicy, very rich, and highly flavoured. 



Ripe about the middle of August, and very excellent. 

 This is supposed to have been raised at Arbroath, in 

 Forfarshire ; although there is a tradition of its having 

 been brought from France by the monks of the abbey 



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