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and crisp, abounding in a rich, brisk, vinous, and aromatic juice, which, 

 at this season, is particularly refreshing. 



An early dessert apple of the finest quality. It is ripe during the first 

 week in August, and lasts all through that month. It is a most beautiful, 

 and certainly one of the most excellent summer apples, possessing all the 

 rich flavor of some of the winter varieties, with the abundant and refresh- 

 ing juice of the summer fruits. Like most of the summer apples it is in 

 greatest perfection when eaten from the tree, which is hardy, vigorous, 

 and an abundant bearer. 



188. IRISH REINETTE.— H. 



Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters wide, by two inches 

 and a half high ; oblong, somewhat five-sided, with five ribs which extend 

 from the base to the apex, where they run into the eye, forming five 

 prominent ridges. Skin, yellowish-green, strewed with minute russety 

 dots on the shaded side ; but dull brownish-red, almost entirely covered 

 with large patches of dull leaden colored russet, on the side exposed to 

 the sun. Eye, small and closed, placed in a ribbed and plaited basin. 

 Stalk, short, inserted in a round, deep, and even cavity. Flesh, green- 

 ish-yellow, firm, crisp, and very juicy, with a brisk, and poignant afiid 

 juice. 



A valuable culinary apple ; in use from November to February. 



This variety is much cultivated about Lancaster, and in the county of 

 Westmoreland, where it is highly esteemed. 



189. ISLE OF WIGHT PIPPIN.— Hort. 



Identification. — Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 360. Lind. Gxiide, 108. Kog. Fr. 



Cult, 82. Pors. Treat. 109. 

 Syuokymes. — Isle of Wight Orange, HorU Soc. Cat ed. 1, 484. Orange Pippin, 



Pom. Here/, t. 8. Pomme d'Orange, Knoop Pom. 47, t. viii. Engelse Oranje 



Appel, Ibid. 171. 

 FiGUEES.— Ron. Pyr. Mai. pi. xxxii. f. 4. Pom. Heref. t. 8. 



Fruit, small, two inches wide, by an inch and a half deep ; globular. 

 Eye, slightly sunk, with broad acute segments of the calyx. Stalk, very 

 short. Skin, yellowish-golden grey, with a russety epidermis, highly 

 colored with orange and red next the sun. Flesh, firm and juicy, with 

 a rich and aromatic flavor. 



A dessert apple of first-rate quality, and also valuable as a cider fruit ; 

 it is in use from September to January. 



The specific gravity of its juice is 1074. 



This is a very old variety, and is no doubt the " Orange Apple " of 

 Ray and Worlidge. According to Mr. Knight, it is by some supposed 

 to have been introduced from Normandy to the Isle of Wight, where it 

 was first planted in the garden at Wrexall Cottage, near the Undercliff, 

 where it was growing in 1817. There are several other varities of apples 

 known by the name of " Orange" and " Orange Pippin, " but they are 

 all very inferior to this. 



The tree does not attain a large size, but is hardy, healthy, and an ex- 



