170 List of Apples found to succeed 



well; makes delicate diverging wood, very downy and 

 full of spurs, and has small lanceolate leaves with long foot- 

 stalks. 



6. *Courtwick Pippin. — On oval fruit, below the middle 

 size; head flatted. Sides smooth, and sometimes warted. 

 Eye large, shallow, sunk, and a little indented. Stalk short, 

 set in a wide cavity, and often oblique. Skin yellow, mixed 

 with russet, and ruddy to the sun. Flesh of a rich yel- 

 low when ripe, crisp, and juicy; flavour saccharine, relieved 

 by an agreeable acid. An excellent apple ; in use from Oc- 

 tober to February. The tree makes slender and erect wood, 

 is healthy, and an abundant bearer. 



Kitchen Apples. — Leixlip, in use to December ; Alexander, 

 to January ; *Beauty of Kent, to February ; Cathead, to 

 March ; Scarlet Admirable and Golden Noble, to March : all 

 large fruit and good bearers. 



Supplementary Table Fruit.— -Yellow Ingestrie, October to 

 November ; Wormsley Pippin, October to November ; Down- 

 ton Pippin, October to January ; Braddick's Nonpareil, 

 November to February; Golden Reinette, November to 

 February ; Scarlet Nonpareil, November to February. 



Latest Keeping Apples. 



1 . Ross Nonpareil. — A middle-sized roundish apple. 

 Sides smooth, sometimes warted. Eye shallow. Stalk about 

 1 in. long, deeply inserted. Surface when ripe yellowish, 

 nearly covered with russet, and a deep red with darker stripes 

 to the sun. Flesh whitish and firm; flavour sugary and 

 perfumed. In use from November to March. An Irish 

 fruit, in great request here. The tree makes slender wood, 

 spreads in its head, grows healthy, and is a great bearer. 



2. Ribston Pippin. — A large, oblate, rotund apple ; with 

 angular sides, and eye deeply furrowed and closed by the 

 calyx. Stalk short, sometimes elbowed, and deeply inserted. 

 Skin yellow, spotted and striped with bright red to the sun, 

 and blotched with russet, particularly at the eye and stalk. 

 Flesh yellow and firm, sometimes coarse ; flavour saccharine 

 and aromatic. A valuable fruit, that maintains its good 

 qualities in almost every situation. The tree grows spread- 

 ing ; its shoots are strong, and very downy at the extremities. 

 This apple is in use from November to April. It possesses 

 so many features in common with the Margil, that it seems 

 most probable that it derives its origin from it; but though 

 it has the advantage in many other respects, yet I think that 

 in flavour it is inferior. 



Beauchamp'well Seedling. — Below the middle size, oval. 



