APPLES. 19 



A very neat and most excellent dessert apple, from 

 October till January. 



30. KERRY PIPPIN. Hooker, Pom. Lond. t. 20. 

 Kerry Pippin. Pom. Mag. t. 107. Hart. Trans. 



Vol. iii. p. 454. 



Fruit middle sized, oval, flattened at the eye, round 

 which are small regular plaits. Stalk short, sometimes 

 thickened and fleshy, inserted in a contracted cavity, 

 with a projection of the fruit on one side ; one or more 

 sharp ridges or lines are almost always distinguishable 

 from the eye to the stalk. Skin pale straw colour, 

 mixed with a deeper yellow, streaked and marbled with 

 red, highly polished. Flesh yellow, crisp, tender, juicy, 

 sugary, and high flavoured. 



An excellent dessert apple from September till No- 

 vember. This has been long known in the county 

 of Kerry, in Ireland, where it is esteemed one of 

 their best dessert apples. Mr. Robertson, of Kilkenny, 

 describes the tree as broom-headed : the young shoots 

 erect, of a greenish brown, full of spurs, downy at the 

 extremities. In this country it does not appear to be a 

 very plentiful bearer ; but it is very deserving of cul- 

 tivation, and succeeds best grafted on. the JDoucin stock, 

 and trained in the garden as an espalier. 



31. KIRKE'S GOLDEN PIPPIN. Hort. Soc. Cat. 

 No. 386. 



Fruit small, formed with the most perfect regularity 

 of outline, a little more long than broad. Crown 

 quite flat. Eye large, in proportion to the size of 

 the fruit, but very shallow, surrounded by a fine thin 

 russet. Skin pale green on the shaded side ; on that 

 exposed to the sun, of a very pure, clear yellow, free 

 from specks. Flesh pale greenish yellow, firm, crisp. 

 Juice abundant, saccharine, and highly flavoured. A 

 dessert apple from Michaelmas to Christmas. 



This is a very beautiful little fruit, raised a few years 



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