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THE PKUIT MANUAL. 



The tree is healthy, vigorous, and an immense bearer, attaining to 

 the middle size. It succeeds well in almost every soil and situation, and 

 when grown on the paradise stock is well suited for espalier training. 



This excellent apple was first discovered growing among a quantity of rubbish 

 behind a wall at Gleaston Castle, near Ulverstone, and was first brought into 

 notice by one John Sander, a nurseryman at Keswick, who, having propagated it, 

 sent it out under the name of Keswick Codlin. 



In the Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, Sir John Sinclair says : 

 " The Keswick Codlin tree has never failed to bear a crop since it was planted in 

 the episcopal garden at Rose Castle, Carlisle, twenty years ago (1813). It is an 

 apple of fine tartness and flavour, and may be used early in autumn. The tree is 

 a very copious bearer, and the fruit is of good size, considerably larger than the 

 Carlisle Codlin. It flourishes best in a strong soiL" 



KILKENNY PEAKMAIN.— Fruit, below medium size, two inches 

 and a half wide, and the same in height ; roundish, inclining to conical. 

 Skin, yellow, sprinkled with russety dots, and sometimes covered with 

 slight reticulations of russet ; tinged with orange and a few streaks of 

 red on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, small, and rather open, set 

 in a narrow basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a shallow cavity, and 

 surrounded with a large patch of russet. Flesh, yellovrish, crisp, 

 tender, juicy, and sweet, hut of dry texture, and lacking acidity. 



A dessert apple of no great merit; in use from October to 

 Christmas. 



King. See Borsdbrffer. 



King Apple. See Warner's King. 



King George. See Borsdorffer. 



KING OF THE PIPPINS.— Fruit, medium sized ; ovate or conical, 

 regularly and handsomely shaped. Skin, greenish yellow, with a blush 

 of red next the sun, and marked with a little rough brown russet. 

 Eye, large, and partially open, with long and broad segments, which 

 are connivent, but reflexed at the tips, set in a shallow and undulating 

 basin. Stalk, a quarter of an inch long, just extending beyond the 

 base. Flesh, white, with a yellowish tinge, firm, crisp, very juicy and 

 sugary, with a rich vinous flavour. 



This is one of the richest flavoured early dessert apples, and un- 

 equalled by any other variety of the same season ; it is ripe in the end 

 of August and beginning of September. 



This is the original and true King of the Kppins, and a very different apple 

 from that generally known by the same name. Bee Golden Winter Peannaiu. I 

 suspect this is the King Apple of Bea. 



King of the Pippins. See Golden Winter Pei-main. 



KINGSTON BLACK.— Fruit, small, two inches and a quarter wide, 

 and one and three quarters high; roundish. Skin, pale yellow, 

 striped with red on the shaded side, and very dark red, striped with 

 dark purple, or almost black stripes, on the side next the sun ; thickly 

 strewed all over with light grey russety dots, and with a large patch of 



