46 APPLES. 



What this appellation has to do with it, or why it was 

 given, I am at a loss to imagine ; since it has no more 

 the appearance of a crab, in any one respect, than any 

 other apple in our collections. Such a misnomer ought 

 to be abolished as most absurd. The name of Easter 

 Pippin was suggested to me more than twenty years 

 ago by the late Dr. Rigby of Norwich, whose high pro- 

 fessional acquirements and classical taste, ranked him 

 among the first men of his time. 



It is a most valuable fruit, of great specific gravity, a 

 most hardy tree, an abundant bearer, and keeps longer 

 than any other apple I have ever met with. I had 

 some perfectly sound, and very firm fruit of it, in March 

 1822, which were grown in 1820 : the colour then was 

 that of a pale orange. 



84. EMBROIDERED PIPPIN. Hort. Soc. (7a. No.302. 



Fenouillet Jaime. Duhamel, No. 12. 



Drap d'Or. Duhamel, No. 12. Knoop. Pom. p. 59- 

 1. 10. 



Pomme de Caractere. Ib. 



Fruit middle-sized, somewhat globular, about two 

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

 diameter ; a little broader at the base than the crown ; 

 and regularly formed without angles. Eye small, a 

 little depressed. Stalk short, deeply inserted. Skin 

 greenish white when first gathered, turning to a bright 

 yellow, strongly marked with a sort of broken ramified 

 net-work of deep grey russet, hence the last synonyme 

 from Knoop. Flesh white, somewhat tough, and, with 

 keeping, elastic. Juice not plentiful, but saccharine, and 

 of an excellent and singularly perfumed flavour. 



A dessert apple from December to April. This is a 

 very excellent apple, of foreign origin, very hardy, and 

 an abundant bearer ; it requires to be well ripened upon 

 the tree, otherwise it is apt to be clung, tough, and 

 leathery. 



