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COCCAGEE. — Fruit, medium sized ; ovate. Skin, fine yellow, 

 smooth, and marked with green specks. Eye, small and closed. 

 Stalk, short. Flesh, yellowish white, soft, sharply acid, and austere. 



One of the oldest and best cider apples ; in use from October to 

 December. Although it is perhaps the most harsh and austere apple 

 known, and generally considered only fit for cider, stiU it is one of the 

 best for all culinary purposes, especially for baking, as it possesses a 

 particularly rich flavour when cooked. 



COCKLE'S PIPPIN (Nutmeg Pippin).— ¥rmt, medium sized; 

 conical or ovate, and slightly angular on the sides. Skin, greenish 

 yellow, changing as it ripens to deeper yellow, dotted with small grey 

 dots, and covered all over the base with delicate pale brown russet. 

 Eye, small, and slightly closed, set in an irregular and somewhat 

 angular basin. Stalk, an inch long, rather slender, and obliquely 

 inserted in a round and deep cavity, which is lined with russet. Flesh, 

 yellowish, firm, tender, crisp, juicy, and sugp,ry, with a pleasant 

 aromatic flavour. 



An excellent dessert apple, of the finest quality ; in use from 

 January to AprU. 



This was raised by a person of the name of Cockle, near Godstone, in Surrey, 

 and it is extensively grown in this as well as the adjoining county of Sussex. 



COCKPIT. — Fruit, about medium size ; obtuse ovate, and some- 

 what angular on the sides. Skin, green, changing as it ripens to 

 greenish yellow, with a faint orange tinge next the sun ; covered all 

 over with small russety dots and some lines of russet. Eye, closed, 

 v?ith converging segments, placed in a rather shallow puckered basin. 

 Stalk, about half an inch long, inserted in an abrupt cavity, which is 

 lined with russet. Flesh, yellowish white, tender, juicy, and with a 

 pleasant, brisk acidity. 



A culinary apple of good quality ; ripe during November and De- 

 cember. 



In Yorkshire this is a favourite apple. 



COE'S GOLDEN DKOP. — ^Fruit, small and conical ; even and 

 regular. Skin, yellow, with a few crimson spots next the sun, and 

 marked with small patches of thin, delicate russet. Eye, small and open, 

 even with the surface, and surrounded with a few shallow plaits. Stalk, 

 three quarters of an inch long, inserted in a small and shallow depression, 

 which, together with the base, is entirely covered with russet. Flesh, 

 greenish yellow, firm, crisp, and very juicy, brisk, sugary, and vinous. 



A delicious little dessert apple of the first quality ; in use from 

 November to May. The tree is hardy, a free, upright grower, and a 

 good bearer. It does well on the paradise stock for dwarf and espaliers. 



This excellent variety was introduced to notice by Gervase Coe, of Bury St. 

 Edmunds, who raised the Golden Drop Plum. It has been said that it is a very 

 old variety, which has existed for many years in some Essex orchards, but was 

 propagated by Coo as a seedling of his own. 



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