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177. HOLLOW CROWNED PIPPIN.— Hort. 



Identification.— Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 341. Lind. Guide, 72. 

 Synontme. — Hollow-eyed Pippin, Fors. Treat. 107. 



Fruit, medium sized ; oblato-oblong, tte same width at the apex as 

 the base, and slightly angular on the sides. Skin, pale green, becoming 

 yellow at maturity, with a faint blush of red where it is exposed to the 

 sun. Eye, large, and set in a wide and deep basin. Stalk, short, thick, 

 and curved, inserted in a rather deep cavity. Flesh, firm, juicy, sugary, 

 and' briskly acid. 



An excellent culinary apple ; in use from November to February. 



178. HOOD'S SEEDLING.— Ronalds. 



Identification and riciiKE. — Ron. Pyr. Mai. pi. xxiii. f. 5. 



This appears to me to be identical with the Scarlet Pearmain. The 

 fruit is exactly the same, and not distinguishable from it. The only 

 difference I can detect is, that the young trees are more strong and vigor- 

 ous than that variety ; but the distinction is altogether so slight, that 

 if not really identical, they are so similar as not to require separate 

 descriptions. 



179. HORMEAD PEARMAIN.— Hort. 



Identification. — Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 545. 



Stnonymes. — Arundel Pearmain, Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1, 744. Hormead Pippin 

 Ibid. 462. 



Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and the same in 

 height ; of the true pearmain-shape, regular and handsome. Skin, of an 

 uniform clear yellow, strewed with brown russety dots. Eye, large and 

 closed, with long segments, and set in a shallow and uneven basin. Stalk, 

 very short and stout, deeply inserted. Flesh, white, tender, very juicy, 

 and pleasantly acid. 



An excellent apple, of first-rate quality for culinary use, and suitable 

 also for the dessert ; it is in season from October to March. 



180. HORSHAM RUSSET.— Lind. 



Identification.— Lind. in Hort. Trans, vol. iv. p. 69. Lind. Guide, 89. 



Fruit, about the size of the Nonpareil, but not so regular in its out- 

 line, generally about two inches and a quarter in diameter, and two 

 inches deep. Eye, small and closed, in a small depression without 

 angles. Stalk, short, rather thick, rather deeply inserted in a wide, 

 uneven cavity. Skin, pale green, covered with a thin, yellowish-grey 

 russet round its upper part, with a pale salmon-colored tinge on the 

 sunny side. Flesh, greenish-white, firm, crisp. Juice, plentiful, of a 

 high aromatic Nonpareil flavor. 



A dessert apple ; in season from November till March. 



Raised from the seed of a Nonpareil about thirty years ago (1821), by 



