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little angular on its sides, which terminate irregularly in 

 the crown. Eye small, with a closed calyx, rather 

 deeply sunk in an uneven, irregularly plaited basin. 

 Stalk short, inserted in a narrow, shallow cavity, not 

 protruded beyond the base. Skin smooth* pale lemon 

 colour quite round the fruit, with a few greenish specks 

 interspersed. Flesh rather soft, yellowish white. Juice 

 sharp acid, with an unpleasant astringency. 



This apple produces the well known, and by some 

 highly esteemed, Coccagee Cider. Mr. Forsyth de- 

 scribes it as of a red colour next the sun ; but those 

 which were given me by Mr. Kirke were perfectly free 

 from red in every part. I had no means of ascertaining 

 the specific gravity of its juice* 



196. COWARNE RED. Pom. Heref t. 28. 



Fruit of a pretty good size, a little more long than 

 broad, but narrow at the crown, in which appear a few 

 obtuse and undefined plaits. Eye small, with very 

 short converging segments of the calyx. Stalk hardly 

 half an inch long, very stiff and straight. Skin, a small 

 part of it pale gold on the shady side and round the 

 base, but of a bright red over a great part, and where 

 fully exposed to the sun of an intense deep purplish crim- 

 son : there are numerous short streaks which mark the 

 shady side of the fruit. 



Specific gravity of its Juice 1069- 



The trees of this sort grow to a large size, and are 

 great bearers. Its name arises from the parish of Cow*, 

 arne, near Bromyard, in Herefordshire, where it was 

 first raised something more than a century ago. This 

 name does not occur in the old catalogues. 



DOWNTON PIPPIN. See No. 50. 



This apple sprang like the Grange Apple, and in the 

 same year, from a seed of the Orange Pippin, and the 

 pollen of the Golden Pippin. The original tree, with 

 that of the Grange Apple, is growing at Wormsley 



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