84 THE FBUIT MANUAL. 



CLYDE TRANSPAEENT.— Fruit, rather below medium size; 

 roundish and ii'regularly angular in its outline. Skin, with a clear 

 bright red which completely covers the side next the sun, mixed here 

 and there with a short broken streak of darker crimson ; on the shaded 

 side it is clear straw yellow. Eye, closed, inserted in a shallow and 

 plaited basin. Stalk, very short, included in a deep smooth funnel- 

 shaped cavity. Flesh, yeUowish, crisp, sweet, and juicy. 



CLUSTER GOLDEN PIPPIN {Cluster Pippin ; Twin-duster 

 Pippin ; Thickset). — Fruit, small, two inches and a quarter wide, and 

 two inches high ; round, and slightly flattened at the top, very fre- 

 quently two united, forming one fruit with two distinct eyes. Skin, 

 smooth, greenish yellow, with a tinge of orange on the exposed side 

 when ripe, and covered with markings and network of thin grey russet, 

 with large patches round the stalk and the eye. Eye, large and open, 

 nearly level with the surface. Stalk, short. Flesh, yellowish, firm, 

 crisp, brisk, and sweet. 



A good second-rate apple, remarkable more for its peculiarity of 

 being produced in united pairs than for its excellence. It is in use 

 from November tiU March. 



Cluster Pippin. See Cluster Golden Pippin, 



Coates's. See Yorkshire Greening. 



CcEur de Pigeon. See Pigeon. 



Cobbett's Fall Pippin. See Reinette Blanche d'Espagne. 



COBHAM (Pope's). — 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. Flesh, yellowish, 

 tender, crisp, sugary, and juicy, with a rich and excellent flavour. 



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

 it is in use from November to March. This variety has all the proper- 

 ties of the Blenheim Pippin, and is much superior to it, keeps longer, 

 and has the great advantage of being an early and abimdant bearer. 



An excellent dessert apple, with somewhat of the flavour of Ribston 

 Pippin. September to January. 



I met with this excellent apple in the neighbourhood of Sittingbourne, in Kent, 

 about the year 1 842. The account I received of it was, that the original tree grew 

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

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

 crop afforded a little income, and many were the unsuccessful applications of his 

 neighbours for grafts of what became generally known as Pope's Apple. The 

 proprietor of Pope's cottage built a row of other dwellings adjoining, in tne gardens 

 of which there were no fruit-trees, and, for the sake of uniformity, he cut down 

 Pope's apple-tree, notwithstanding the offer of twenty shillings a-year more rent to 

 spare it. The tree, being condoned, was cut down in 1846, at which period it 

 was between fifty and sixty years old. The name of Cobham was given to it by 

 Kirke the nurseryman at Brompton. 



