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greenish-white, crisp, tender, juicy, sugary, with a brisk and rich flavor. 

 A dessert apple, of good, though not of first-rate quahty ; it is in use 

 from November to February. 



277. POPE'S APPLE.— H. 



Fruit, large ; ovate, handsomely and regularly formed. Skin, clear 

 yellow, tinged with greenish patches, and strewed with dark dots ; on the 

 side next the sun it is marked with a few faint streaks of crimson. Eye, 

 large and open, like that of the Blenheim Pippin, and set in a wide and 

 plaited basin. Stalk, short, deeply inserted in a round cavity, which is 



lined with rough russet, and with an incipient protuberance on one side 

 of it. Flesh, yellowish, tender, crisp, sugary and juicy, with a rich and 

 excellent flavor. 



A very valuable apple either for the dessert or culinary purposes ; it is 

 in use from November to March. 



This variety has all the properties of the Blenheim Pippin, and is much 

 superior to it, keeps longer, and has the great advantage of being an early 

 and abundant bearer. 



This excellent apple is as yet but little known. I met with it in the 

 neighbourhood of Sittingbourne, in Kent, where it is greatly esteemed 

 and now extensively cultivated for the supply of the London markets. 

 The account I received of it was, that the original tree grew in the gar- 

 den of a cottager of the name of Pope, at Cellar Hill, in the parish of 

 Linsteadf near Sittingbourne. It was highly prized by its owner, to whom 

 the crop afforded a little income, and many were the unsuccessful appli- 

 cations of his neighbours for grafts of what became generally known as 

 Pope's Apple. The proprietor of this cottage built a row of other dwell- 



