80 APPLES. 



covered with clear yellow russet. Flesh inclining to 

 yellow, crisp, and tender. Juice brisk and saccharine. 



An excellent dessert apple from November till the 

 end of May. 



Raised by James Carrel, Nurseryman, at Pinner, 

 Middlesex, in 1810. It produced its first fruit in 

 1818, and was first exhibited at the Horticultural So- 

 ciety in 1820. 



155. RIBSTON PIPPIN. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 946. 

 Pom. Mag. t. 141. 



Formosa Pippin. Hort. Trans. Vol. iii, p. 322. 



Traver's Apple. Ib. Vol. iii. p. 324., according to 

 the Pom. Mag. 



Glory of York. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 946. 



Fruit middle-sized, somewhat irregularly formed, 

 with a few broad, obtuse, indistinct angles on its sides, 

 and generally more broad than long ; about two inches 

 and three quarters in diameter, and two inches and a 

 quarter deep. Eye rather small, with a closed calyx, 

 placed in an irregularly angular basin. Stalk half an inch 

 long, slender, inserted in a rather narrow, funnel-shaped 

 cavity, seldom protruding beyond the base. Skin pale 

 yellow, russetty in the crown and round the stalk, and 

 mottled thinly with dull red on the sunny side. Flesh 

 pale yellow, firm, crisp. Juice saccharine, with a pun- 

 gent, rich, and delicious aromatic flavour. 



A dessert apple from October till April, but it is 

 generally in its greatest perfection when it has t>een 

 gathered a month or six weeks. 



The Rijbston Pippin may be truly said to be one of 

 the best, and certainly is one of the most popular des- 

 sert apples of the present day, as well known as the 

 Golden Pippin and the Nonpareil ; and a greater num- 

 ber of trees of it are sold by nurserymen throughout 

 England, than of both those sorts put together. It was 

 raised, according to traditionary accounts, from some 



