78 APPLES. 



nivent calyx, in a very shallow basin, surrounded by 

 some irregular plaits, the natural number of which is 

 five. Stalk three quarters of an inch long. Skin thick, 

 always green while on the tree, tinged with copper- 

 coloured red, with several darker spots on the sunny 

 side. Flesh firm. Juice rich and perfumed. 



A dessert apple from December till March. 



Raised some years ago by Mrs. Anne Simpson, sister- 

 in-law of John Ord, Esq., from the seed of an apple 

 grown in his garden at Purser's Cross, near Fulham, 

 the produce of a tree he had raised from a Newtown 

 Pippin, which he had imported from America about 

 the year 1777. 



151. ORTLEY APPLE. Hort. Trans. Vol. vi. p. 4 15. 

 Fruit very much resembling the yellow Newtown 



Pippin, but a little more oval. Eye large and well 

 formed, not deeply sunk, and surrounded by many small 

 folds or plaits. Stalk slender, inserted in a deep, and 

 even-formed cavity. Skin bright clear yellow where 

 shaded, and of a bright scarlet, sprinkled with a few 

 russetty spots, on the sunny side. Flesh inclining to 

 yellow, crisp, and breaking. Juice plentiful, with the 

 same fine flavour which distinguishes the Newtown 

 Pippin. 



A dessert apple from November till April. 



This most excellent variety is a native of New Jersey, 

 in North America. Specimens of it were sent from 

 thence to the Horticultural Society, and exhibited at 

 the meetings of the 1st and 15th of March, 1825. 



152. OXNEAD PEARMAIN. G. Lindl. Plan of an 

 Orchard, 1796. 



Earl of Yarmouth's Pearmain. Ib. 



Fruit small, conically tapering from the base to the 

 crown. Eye very small, surrounded by three or four 

 somewhat obscure plaits. Stalk three quarters of an inch 

 long, very slender. Skin entirely grass-green, always 



