184 BiUTJSH POMOLOGY, ETC. 



ate at the crown in five prominent ridges. Skin, orange, streaked with 

 deep red, and covered on one side with patches of russet. Eye, small and 

 closed, compressed as it were between the angles of the basin. Stalk, 

 half-an-inch long, slender, and rather deeply inserted in a round, and 

 russety cavity. Flesh, yellow, firm, juicy, rich, and sugary, with a power- 

 ful, and delicious aromatic flavor. 



One of the finest dessert apples, a rival of the Ribston Pippin, excelling 

 it in juiciness, and being of a better size for the dessert ; it is in use from 

 November to February. 



The tree is quite hardy, and generally an abundant bearer, except in 

 seasons when the bloom is injured by frosts, to which it is liable. It is of a 

 small, and slender habit of growth, and is well adapted for growing as 

 dwarfs, or espaliers, when grafted on the paradise stock. 



There seems to be no record of this variety before the publication of 

 the Pomona Londonensis, although it was known for many years previ- 

 ously. Rogers says, he saw a tree of it growing as an espalier in the garden 

 at Sheen, which was planted by Sir William Temple. I find it was 

 cultivated to a considerable extent in the Brompton Park nursery, so 

 early as 1 750 ; it must therefore have been well known at that period ; 

 but I cannot discover any trace of its origin. It may have been intro- 

 duced from the continent by George London who was for some years 

 in the gardens at Versailles under De Quintinye, and afterwards in part- 

 nership with Henry Wise as proprietor of the Brompton Park nursery, 

 as the name seems to indicate more of French than English origin. 



223. MARMALADE PIPPIN.— Hort. 



iDENTiriOATiON. — Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 429. Diel Kernobst. i. B. 23. 



SiKONTMES. — Althorp Pippin, i^ori. Soc. Cat. e.A. 1,8. Welsh Pippin, ace. ifon. 

 Pyr. Mai. 



FiGDKE. — Eon. Pyr. Mai. pi. xxviii. f. .3. 



Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and two inches and 

 three quarters high ; oblong, with a prominent rib on one side, and 

 flattened at the apex, where it terminates in several prominences. Skin, 

 very thick, hard, and membranous ; deep yellow, with a brownish tinge 

 next the sun, and strewed with numerous imbedded pearly specks. Eye, 

 small and open, with long acuminate and reflexed segments, set in a deep, 

 and angular basin. Stalk, half-an-inch long, inserted in a deep, and 

 smooth cavity. Flesh, yellowish-white, firm and tender, sweet, juicy, and 

 pleasantly flavored. 



A culinary apple, but only of second-rate quality ; it is in use from 

 October to January. 



The tree is hardy and an abundant bearer. 



This variety was introduced in 1818 — the year in which the original 

 tree first produced fruit — by a Mr. Stevens of Stanton Grange, in Derby- 

 shire, by whom it was raised from a seed of the Keswick Codling. The 

 Marmalade Pippin of Diel which is described in the 22 vol. and which he 

 says is an English apple, is not the same as the above, for he describes it 

 as " a true streaked apple, and ripe in August ". 



