SPRIIfG GROVE CODLINfe. ff 



XIII. 



A short Account of a netv Apple, called the Spring Groiii 

 Codling. By the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. 

 K.B. P.R.S. ^-c* 



, At the request of Mt. T. A. Knight, I beg t%ave to lay spring QLfbtg 

 before this Society the opinion formed by my friends and codJing, 

 myself last autumn, on the merits of an apple produced by 

 one of his judicious mixtures, which he has done me th6 

 honour to call the Spring Grove codling. 



In the beginning of September, I received a Small bo^ 

 of these apples, which were fully ripe; when baked they 

 had all the quickness and flavour of the best winter applfesj 

 an(3 a considerable tinge of red. 



All who had 'asted the pie agreed, they had not met with 

 any autumn apple which for baking could be compared 

 to this new one. Mr. Knight informs me, that it is ready its seasdii b'f 

 for use in the month of July, at a season when London ript;ning. 

 geese are probably better than at any other; but when the 

 did English accompanyment of apple sauce was not, tiil 

 Mr; Knight furnished us with this apple^ possible to be 

 diatained; in this view it becomes an addition of importance 

 to the old English kitchen, the cookery of which true 

 Englishmen still prefet to French ragouts, or to Spanish 

 olios. 



I^ proves of the burr apple kind, arid may be accordingly Of tlieijuff 

 propagated by cuttings without difficulty, which will bear ^PP^® ^""*^' 

 the next year, as well as by grafting, Mr. Hooker, v^ho 

 colours the Pomona Herefordiensis, has made a very excel- 

 Cellent representation of this frhit, of which a copy accorii- 

 panJes this communication: as a relord in the archives 

 of the Society it may hereafter become a useful, as well 

 as a valuable deposit. The tree grows freely, and bears 

 abundantly. 



♦ Trans, of the Horticaliural Society, vol. I^ p, 197. 



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