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crown and round the eye. Flesh rather soft, greenish 

 white, with a slightly saccharine juice, but not much 

 flavour. 



A culinary apple in November and December, de- 

 scribed from a fruit grown in the Horticultural garden 

 at Chiswick in 1830. 



34. PADLEY'S PIPPIN. Hort. Trans. Vol. iii. p. 69. 

 Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 720. Pom. Mag. 1. 151. 



Fruit rather small, and somewhat flat, one inch and 

 a half deep, and two inches in diameter. Eye small, with 

 a very small closed calyx, placed in a shallow and rather 

 angular basin. Stalk three quarters of an inch long, very 

 slender, one half projecting beyond the base of the fruit. 

 Skin pale, dull yellow, very much covered with a rough 

 grey russet, and a little tinged with orange on the 

 sunny side. Flesh greenish yellowish, crisp. Juice sac- 

 charine, with a very pleasant, aromatic flavour. A very 

 neat and excellent dessert apple in November and De- 

 cember. Raised about twenty years ago by the late 

 Mr. William Padley, gardener to His Majesty, at 

 Hampton Court, and first propagated by Mr, Ronalds 

 of Brentford. 



35. PHILADELPHIA PIPPIN. G. Lind. Cat. 1815. 

 Ditchingham Pippin. ib. 



Fruit rather above the middle size, round, but some- 

 what flat at the crown. Eye small. Stalk half an inch 

 long, inserted in a rather deeply hollowed base. Skin 

 yellowish grey, with a faint blush on the sunny side. 

 Flesh white. Juice brisk and well flavoured. 



A culinary apple from Michaelmas to Christmas. 

 An American apple, brought into this country about 

 seventy years ago. Four of these trees are now growing 

 in the gardens of J. J. Bedingfeld, Esq. at Ditchingham 

 Hall, in Norfolk. They grow to a large size, are very 

 hardy, and great bearers. The fruit are, for the most 

 part, produced singly on the branches : they are, in 



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