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growing in a garden belonging to Michael Bland, Esq., 

 in the city of Norwich, as one example out of the many 

 which might be produced, in corroboration of what I 

 have stated. 



If the Golden Pippin be planted upon a good soil on 

 a dry bottom, and in a warm or sheltered situation, well 

 exposed to the sun, where its blossoms are secured from 

 cold blasts in the spring, and where it can ripen its wood 

 perfectly, it will be found hardy, without exhibiting 

 those alarming signs of decay which have been held out 

 as a presage of its speedy death. 



Ripe in October, and will keep two months, or till 

 past Christmas. 



27. HAWTHORNDEN. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 440. Pom. 

 Mag. t. 34. 



White Hawthornden. NicoPs Fr. Gard. p. 56. 

 According to the Pom. Mag. 



Fruit above the middle size, rather irregularly formed, 

 generally about three inches in diameter in one direc- 

 tion, and three inches and a quarter in another. When 

 this irregularity happens, for it is not always the case, 

 it arises from a broad protuberant rib, which extends 

 from the base to the crown. This has occasioned the 

 Hawthornden to be represented in the figure quoted 

 above as having a cleft on its side ; but neither this nor 

 yet any other apple has one naturally. Sutures, or 

 channels in fruit, are no where to be found, except in 

 those which are termed drupaceous, or stone fruit. Its 

 depth is from two inches and a quarter to two inches 

 and a half. Eye rather small, with a converging calyx, 

 rather deep, and surrounded by a few obtuse plaits. 

 Stalk half an inch long, slender, rather deeply inserted. 

 Skin very smooth, white, of a very pale greenish yellow, 

 sometimes a / little tinged with a blush on the sunny side 

 towards the base. Flesh white. Juice plentiful, and 

 well flavoured. 



