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narrow deep cavity. Skin thick, dark green quite round 

 the fruit, mottled with pale green at the base, where it 

 has a dull dark olive colour surrounding the stalk. 

 Flesh greenish white, firm, crisp. Juice saccharine, 

 with a brisk acid, and a slight aromatic flavour. 



A dessert apple from December till May or June. 

 Lately sent to this country by David Hosack, M. D. 

 of New York. 



95. HOLLAND PIPPIN. Miller, No. 8. 



Fruit above the middle size, of a somewhat square figure, 

 being nearly as broad at the crown as the base, and a little 

 angular on its sides, about two inches and a half deep, 

 and three inches in diameter. Eye rather small, with 

 a closed calyx, sunk in a narrow regularly plaited basin. 

 Stalk short, rather deeply sunk in a wide funnel-shaped 

 cavity. Skin greenish yellow, interspersed with a few 

 green dots, and tinged with pale dingy brown on the 

 sunny side. Flesh yellowish white, pretty firm, tender. 

 Juice sub-acid, mixed with a good deal of sugar, and a 

 slight perfume. 



A culinary apple from November till January. 



96. KIRKE'S LORD NELSON. Hart. Soc. Cat. No. 570. 

 Fruit above the middle size, about two inches and a 



half deep, and three inches in diameter, of a very regular 

 shape, and nearly free from angles, not much unlike the 

 Emperor Alexander Apple, particularly at the crown, 

 where it is narrowed. Eye open, with a short recurved 

 calyx, in a moderately deep basin, surrounded by a few 

 puckered plaits. Stalk short, slender. Skin clear, 

 pale yellow, deeply tinged with red towards the base ; on 

 the sunny side of a vivid red, streaked with a deeper 

 colour, with a few small dark spots near the eye. Flesh 

 yellowish white, firm. Juice plentiful, of a pleasant 

 aromatic flavour. 



A beautiful dessert and culinary apple from November 

 to January. 



