210 BRITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. 



The Winter Quoining, is a very old English apple. I have here 

 adopted an orthography, different from that usually employed, because 

 I conceive it to be the most correct. The name is derived from the 

 word Coin or Quoin, the corner stones of a building, because of the 

 angles or corners on the sides of the fruit. Thus Rea in his Pomona says, 

 when speaking of this apple, " it succeeds incomparably on the paradise 

 apple, as the Colviele, (Calville) and all other sorts of Queenings do," re- 

 garding the Calville also as a Queening from the angularity of its shape. 



394. WOODCOCK.— Evelyn. 



Identification. — Evelyn Pom. 102. Pom. Heref. t. 10. Lind. Guide, 112. Kog. 

 Pr. Cult. 112. 



Fruit, medium sized ; of an oval shape, tapering a little towards the 

 crown, which is narrow. Eye, flat, with broad segments of the calyx. 

 Stalk, three quarters of an inch long, thick, and fleshy, and curved 

 inwards towards the fruit. Skin, yellow, nearly covered with a soft red, 

 and much deeper color on the sunny side. 



Specific gravity of the juice, 1073. — Lindley. 



This is one of the oldest cider apples, and is highly commended by 

 the writers of the seventeenth century ; but according to Mr. Knight it 

 has long ceased to deserve the attention of the planter. It is said 

 that the name of this apple, is derived from an imagined resem- 

 blance in the form of the fruit, and fruit-stalk, in some instances, to 

 the head and beak of a woodcock ; but Mr. Knight thinks it probable 

 that it was raised by a person of that name. 



395. WOOLMAN'S LONG.— Coxe. 



Identification— Coxe View, 169. Hort. See. Cat. ed. 3, n. 884. 



Stnontmes.— Ortley, Hort. Trans, vol. vi. p. 415. Lind. Guide, 78. Van Dyne, 

 Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1, 1128. •' 



Fruit, medium sized ; oblong. Skin, clear deep yellow, on the shaded 

 side ; but bright scarlet, on the side next the sun, sprinkled with 

 imbedded pearly specks, and russety dots. Eye, large, set in a moderately 

 deep and plaited basin. Stalk, slender, inserted in a rather deep and 

 even cavity. Flesh, yellowish, crisp, brittle, juicy, with a rich, brisk, 

 and perfumed flavor. 



An excellent apple of first-rate quality, suitable either for culinary or 

 dessert use ; it is in season from December to April. 



This is an American apple, and originated in the state of New 



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396. WORMSLEY PIPPIN.— Hort. 



iDENTiPioATiON.— Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 885. Down. Fr Amer 97 Oard 

 Chron. 1846, 8.'53. Kog. Pr. Cult. 80. ^^- ^^'^''• 



Stnontme.— Knight's Codlin, ace. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. 



Figure — Kon. Pyr. Mai. pi. iv. f. 2. 



