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BRITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. 



A dessert apple of first-rate quality. Ripe in the begining of August. 

 The tree is a vigorous and luxuriant grower, and a good bearer. 



207. LEMON PIPPIN.— Fors. 



Identification. — ^Fors. Treat. 112. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 406. Lind. Guide, 75. 

 Down. Fr. Amer. 115. Eog. Fr. Cult, 81. 



Synonymes. — Kirke's Lemon Pippin, Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1, 551. Quince, Bog. 

 Fr. Cult. 66. Englischer Winterquittenapfel, Did Kemobst. ii. B. 21. 



FiGUKiis. — Pom. Mag. t. 37. Ron. Pyr. Mai. pi. is. f. 4. 



Fruit, medium sized ; oval, with a large fleshy elongation covering the 



stalk, which gives it the form of a lemon. Skin, pale yellow tinged with 

 green, changing to a lemon yellow as it attains maturity, strewed with 

 russety freckles, and patches of thin delicate russet. Eye, small, and 

 partially open, with short segments, and set in an irregular basin, which 

 is frequently higher on one side than the other. Stalk, short, entirely 

 covered with a fleshy elongation of the fruit. Flesh, firm, crisp, and 

 briskly flavored. 



A very good apple, either for culinary or dessert use ; it is in season 

 from October to April, and is perhaps the most characteristic apple we 

 have, being sometimes so much like a lemon, as at first sight to be taken 

 for that fruit. Forsyth says it is excellent for drying. 



The tree does not attain a large size ; but is healthy, hardy, and a 

 good bearer. 



It is uncertain at what period the Lemon Pippin was first brought into 

 notice. Rogers calls it the " Quince Apple," and, if it is what has always 

 been known under that name, it must be of considerable antiquity, being 

 mentioned by Rea, Worlidge, Ray, and almost all the early writers ; but 

 the first instance wherein we find it called Lemon Pippin, is in Ellis's 

 " Modern Husbandman" 1744, where he says it is "esteemed so good 

 an apple for all uses, that many plant this tree preferable to all others.'' 



