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ago from a seed of the old Golden Pippin by Mr. Kirke, 

 in his nursery at Old Brompton, near London, and is 

 highly deserving of cultivation. Like all other Golden 

 Pippins, it is too tender for an orchard tree in cold 

 situations. It succeeds best when grafted upon the 

 Doucin stock and planted in the garden. 



32. NONESUCH. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 677, 

 Nonsuch. Forsyth Ed. 3. 121. 

 Langton Nonesuch. Hanbury. 



Fruit middle sized, of a very regular round figure, 

 and free from angles on its sides, about two inches and 

 a half in diameter, and two inches and a quarter deep. 

 Eye small, with a short, closed calyx, in a very regular, 

 rather shallow, saucer-shaped basin, without plaits. 

 Stalk short, slender, inserted in a shallow cavity, 

 seldom projecting beyond the base. Skin pale yellow, 

 spotted and marbled with orange, with numerous broken 

 stripes and patches of brick-red on the sunny side. Flesh 

 white, soft, and tender. Juice plentiful, a little sac- 

 charine, and slightly perfumed. A handsome dessert 

 apple from 'Michaelmas till nearly Christmas. RAY has 

 a Nonsuch Apple, in 1668; but, as he has placed it 

 among his winter or keeping apples, it is not certain 

 whether that is the same as this. 



33. OAKE'S APPLE. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 698. 

 Fruit middle-sized, round, a little irregular in its 



outline, having two or three obtuse ribs swelling and 

 lengthening one of its sides more than the other, abou 

 three inches in diameter, and two inches and a quarter 

 deep. Eye small, nearly closed by the short segments of 

 the calyx, rather deeply sunk in an irregular, uneven 

 bason. Stalk very short, thick, wholly inserted within 

 the base in a narrow cavity. Skin thick, pale green, 

 with several imbedded white dots, and slightly marked 

 with many short, broken streaks of pale brown, with 

 russetty specks on the sunny side, particularly in the 



