APPLES. &5 



about 1810. It began bearing in 1819, and its fruit 

 was exhibited at the Horticultural Society in 1821.- 



43. WORMSLEY PIPPIN/ Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 1183. 

 Pom. Mag. t. 80. 



Knight's Codlin, of some collections, according to the 

 Pom. Mag. 



Fruit middle-sized, globular, slightly angular. Eye 

 deeply sunk, surrounded by small plaits. Stalk about 

 an inch long, deeply inserted. Skin pale green on the 

 shaded side, brown next the sun. Flesh white, firm, 

 crisp, juicy, with a lively sugared juice. 



Ripens the beginning of September, and remains in 

 perfection till the end of October. This is an excellent 

 autumnal fruit, bearing well, and having a firm high- 

 flavoured flesh, resembling in quality that of the New- 

 town Pippin. It derives its name from Wormsley 

 Grange, a country seat where Mr. Knight formerly 

 resided. The first account of it is to be found in the 

 Horticultural Transactions, communicated by Mr. 

 Knight, in March, 1811. 



44. WYKEN PIPPIN. Loud. Gard. Mag. 



Fruit rather below the middle size, round, somewhat 

 flattened both at the base and the crown, about two 

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

 Eye rather small, open, naked, with but little of the 

 remaining calyx, placed in a shallow, regularly formed 

 basin. Stalk short, not deeply inserted. Skin yel- 

 lowish green, interspersed with several small grey specks, 

 and a little tinged with pale dull brown on the sunny 

 side. Flesh greenish yellow, firm, crisp. Juice su- 

 gary, with a little musky perfume. A very neat dessert 

 apple from October to December. The original tree, a 

 very old one, or the trunk of it, with a strong sucker 

 from its root, was growing in May, 1827, at its native 

 place, Wyken, two miles from Coventry. The seed, it 

 is said, was planted by a Lord Craven, who brought it 



