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371. WADHURST PIPPIN.— Hort. 



Identification. — Hort. Soc, Cat. ed. 3, p. 44. 



Fruit, above medium size, sometimes very large, but generally 

 averaging three inches wide, and two inches and three quarters high ; 

 conical, or pearmain-shaped, and angular on the sides. Skin, yellow, tinged 

 with green on the shaded side ; and more or less mottled with brownish- 

 red, on the side next the sun, and strewed with minute grey dots. 

 Eye, closed, set in a wide, deep, and angular basin. Stalk, a quarter of 

 an inch long, stout, placed in a shallow cavity. Flesh, yellowish, crisp, 

 juicy, and briskly flavored. 



A culinary apple of excellent quality ; in use from October to 

 February. It originated at Wadhurst in Sussex. 



372. WALTHAM ABBEY SEEDLING.— Hort. 



Identification. — Hort. Trans, vol. v. p. 269. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, u. 853. 

 Lind. Guide, 24. 



Fruit, large ; roundish. Skin, pale yellow, assuming a deeper tinge 

 as it attains maturity, with a faint blush of red where exposed to the 

 sun, and strewed all over with minute russety dots. Eye, large and 

 open, set in a shallow and even basin. Stalk, short, deeply inserted, 

 and surrounded with rough russet. Flesh, yellowish, tender, juicy, 

 sweet, and pleasantly flavored, and when cooked assumes a clear pale 

 amber. 



A culinary apple of first-rate quality ; in use from September to 

 Christmas. 



This apple was raised about the year 1810, by Mr. John Barnard, of 

 Waltham Abbey, in Essex, and was introduced by him at a meeting of 

 the London Horticultural Society, in 1821. 



373. WANSTALL.— H. 



Stnontme.^ — Green-street Apple. 



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

 a quarter high ; roundish, but narrowing a little towards the eye, with 

 five prominent angles on the sides, which terminate in ridges round the 

 apex, rendering the shape distinctly five-sided. Skin, deep golden- 

 yellow on the shaded side ; but red, which is striped and mottled with 

 darker red, on the side next the sun ; marked with patches and veins of 

 thin grey russet, and strewed all over with russety dots. Eye, half 

 open, with broad, flat segments, set in an angular and plaited basin. 

 Stalk, half-an-inch long, deeply inserted in a round cavity. Flesh, 

 yellow, firm, crisp, juicy, rich, sugary, and highly flavored. 



A dessert apple of the very first quality; equal in flavor to the 

 Ribston Pippin, and will keep till May and June. 



This variety was raised at Green-street, near Sittingbourne, in Kent, 

 by a tailor of the name of Wanstall, about 40 years ago. 



