f^ BURRKNOT APPLE. 



XII, 

 ^n 4<^covnt of the Burr knot Apple. In a Letter to Hknrv 

 Grimstotj, £'55. F. H. S. Bi/ the Rev. John Simpson*. 



MY UEAR SUl, 



9,\iqkiio^ ^p. % OUR letter met me on my return home aiter a raoath'* 

 VJ§ys^ ramble among the mountains and lakes in Curaberlaiid, 



^nd I novv send you a short description of the apple tree 

 palled here the burrknot. At a proper season I will for- 

 ward to you a few knots, or knobs of it, for trial, which, put 

 Vito the ground, will make a long shoot, the followtng. 

 spring; or, if you wish it, I will senrl yoa a few knobbed 

 branches wiih blossoQi buds upxin thgm, which will bear a 

 little the same year, but you must observe the smaller 

 knobbed branches with blossom buds will not make sncti 

 (ine or handsome trees as the others. 

 Itseoodqua- ^'^Q burrknot apple treef is uncQmmonly productive. 

 fiU?^'. My trees never miss bearing, not being so liable to blight in 



inclement seasons, as other varieties. The fruit is large, its 

 tints resembling the ribston pippin, and about its size. F«r 

 culinary uses, it is not inferior to the choicest codlin, and a 

 much better keeper. The tree is not liable to canker^ 

 pwing, I am persuaded, to its not putting out a tap-root, 

 but spreading its huaierous tibres from the knob, horizon- 

 tally, and following the richness of the soil. 

 ^^Vear-sto^ ^^^ ^^^^ worthy and valuable friend, Sir Christopher- 



|.?4,r's |.to^th. Sykes, ol>perving my trees of one year's growth with fruit 

 upon theio, was astonished, and the following year had the 

 pleasure of exhibiting same of the knobbed branches, which 

 I gave him, adorned with f nit in his own garden to his 

 friends, of which you have probably been an eye witness, 

 having visited so frequently in his time at Sledmere. If 

 you wish for any other information that I can give respect- 

 V-^g this, ap.plerrtree^ I shall be happy to send it, and remain, 



Dear sir, 

 Rooss, near Patrhigtorif Yours very truly, 



Jw/y 25th, 1803. JOHN SIMPSON. 



« Trans, of the Moriicultural So.c. Vol. I, p. 120, 



■^ Specimens of iho fruit, and branches of this apple tree from R»oss, 

 Tj^hichis also plentiful in 1,'xd Haw ke&bury's garden at Combe, were ex- 

 h;,biU(J at the niesung ef the Society, heidD(eo. 6th. 



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