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remains will soon be the portion of the woodlouse and the worm. Old Grimmett 

 the basket-maker, against the corner of whose garden-wall the venerable relict is . 

 supported, has sat looking on it from his workshop window, and while he wove the j 

 pliant osier, has meditated, for more than fifty snccessive summers on the muta- 

 bility of all sublunary substances, on juice, and core, and vegetable, as well m 

 animal, and flesh, and blood. He can remember the time when fifty years ago, he : 

 was a boy, and the tree a fine, full-bearing stem, full of bud, and blossom, and frmt, 

 and thousands thronged from all parts to gaze on its ruddy, ripenmg, orange burden ; 

 then gardeners came in the spring-tide to select the much coveted scions, and to 

 hear the tale of his horticultural child and sapling, from the lips of the son of the 

 white-haired Kempster. But nearly a century has elapsed since Kempster fell, like 

 a ripened fruit, and was gathered to his fathers. He lived m a narrow cottage 

 garden in Old Woodstock, a plain, practical, labouring man ; and in the midst of 

 his bees and flowers around him, and in his ' glorious pride,' in the midst of his 

 little garden, he realised Virgil's dream of the old Corycian : ' Et regum equabat 

 opes animis.' .... 



" The provincial name for this apple is still ' Kempster's Pippm, a lasting monu- 

 mental tribute and inscription to him who first planted the kernel from whence 

 it sprang." 



Bonnet Carre. See Galville Blanche d'Hiver. 



BOEOVITSKY. — Fruit, medium sized, two inches high, and about 

 the same in width ; roundish and slightly angular. Skin, pale green 

 strewed with silvery russet scales on the shaded side, and coloured 

 with bright red, which is striped with deeper red on the side next the 

 sun. Eye, set in a wide and plaited basin. Stalk, an inch long, 

 deeply inserted in a rather wide cavity. Flesh, white, firm, brisk, 

 juicy, and sugary. 



An excellent early dessert apple, ripe in the middle of August. 



This was sent from the Taurida Gardens, near St. Petersburg, to the London 

 Horticultural Society in 1824. 



Borsdorff. See Borsdorffer. 



Borsdorff Hative. See Borsdorffer. 



BOESDORFFER {Borstorff Hative; Queen's AppU ; Bed Bors- 

 dorffer; Borsdorff; Postophe d'Hivei- ; Pomme de prochain; Beinette 

 d'Allemagne ; Blanche de Leipsic ; Beinette de Misnie ; Grand Bohe- 

 mian Borsdorffer ; Gairet Pippin ; King ; King George ; King George 

 the Third). — Fruit, below medium size ; roundish oblate, ratiier nar- 

 rower at the apex than the base, handsomely and regularly formed, 

 without ribs or other inequalities. Skin, shining, pale wasen yellow 

 in the shade, and bright deep red next the sun ; it is strewed with dots, 

 which are yellowish on the sunny side, and brownish in the shade, and 

 marked with veins and slight traces of delicate, yellowish grey russet. 

 Eye, large and open, with long reflexed segments, placed in a rather 

 deep, round, and pretty even basin. Stalk, short and slender, inserted 

 in a narrow, even, and shallow cavity, which is lined with thin russet. 

 Flesh, white with a yellowish tinge, crisp and delicate, brisk, juicy, 

 and sugary, and with a rich, vinous, and aromatic flavour. 



A dessert apple of the first quality; in use from November to 

 January. 



