128 BRITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. 



211. LONDON PIPPIN.— Lind. 



Identification. — Lind. in Hort. Trans. toI. iv. p. 67. Fors. Treat, ed. 7, 112. 



Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 410. Eog. Ft. Cult. 93. 

 Stnonymes. — Five-Crowned Pippin, Fors. Treat, ed. 3. 99. Royal Somerset, 



Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1. 971. New London Pippin, Ibid. 562. 



FiGORE. — Ron. Pyr. Mai. pi. xiv, f. 2. 



Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters broad, and two 

 inches and a quarter high ; roundish, and flattened, with a few ribs on 

 the sides which increase in size towards the crown where they terminate 

 in five prominent and equal ridges, from which circumstance it has been 

 called the Five-Crowned Pippin. Skin, at first pale yellowish-green, 

 changing to pale yellow or lemon color, with brownish-red on the side 

 next the sun. Eye, small and closed, set in a rather shallow basin, 

 Stalk, half an inch long, slender, and deeply inserted. Flesh, yellowish- 

 white, firm, crisp, tender, and juicy, with a brisk and pleasant flavor. 



An excellent culinary apple, and serviceable also for the dessert ; it 

 is in use from November to April, when it is perfectly sound and shows 

 no symptoms of shrivelling. 



The tree attains about the middle size, is not a strong grower, but 

 quite hardy, and an excellent bearer. 



Although there is no record of this variety in the writings of any 

 pomological author before Mr. Lindley, it is nevertheless a very old 

 English apple. In an ancient note-book of an ancestor of Sir John 

 Trevelyan, Bart., of Nettlecombe, in Somersetshire, so early as 1580, the 

 " Lounden Peppen " is mentioned among the " names of Apelles which I 

 had their graffes from Brentmarch, from one Mr. Pace. " From this we 

 may learn, that we are not to take for granted the non-existence of any 

 variety, simply because there is no notice of it, previous to the period 

 when it may have been first recorded, in works on pomology. 



212. LONG NOSE.— H. 



Fruit, rather below medium size, two inches and a half high, and about 

 the same in width at the base ; conical, with prominent angles on the 

 sides. Skin, smooth and shining, grass green, changing to greenish 

 yellow, with a cloud of bright red on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, 

 closed, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, a quarter of an inch long, fleshy 

 at the insertion, sometimes with a fleshy protuberance on one side of it, 

 and inserted in a narrow, shallow, and russety cavity. Flesh, yellowish- 

 white, crisp, and tender, with a slightly sweet but rather indifferent 

 flavor. 



An apple of little merit, being of no value either for culinary purposes 

 or the dessert ; it is in season from October to December, and is met 

 with in the Berkshire Orchards. 



213. LONGSTART. H. 



Stnontme.— "Westmoreland Longstart. 

 Fruit, medium sized ; roundish, narrowing towards the eye, somewhat 



