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Large Yellow Newtown Pippin. See Newtown Pippin. 

 Leathereoat. See Royal Russet. 



LEMON PIPPIN {Kirke's Lemon Pippin; Quince; Englischer 

 Winterquittenapfel). — Fruit, medium sized ; oval, mth a large fleshy 

 elongation covering the stalk, which gives it the form of a lemon. Skin, 

 pale yellow, tinged with green, changing to a lemon yellow as it attains 

 maturity, strewed with russety freckles and patches of thin dehcate 

 russet. Eye, small, and partially open, with short segments, and set 

 in an irregular basin, which is frequently higher on one side than the 

 other. Stalk, short, entirely covered with a fleshy elongation of the 

 fruit. Flesh, firm, crisp, and briskly flavoured. 



A very good apple, either for culinary or dessert use ; it is in season 

 from October to April, and is perhaps the most characteristic apple we 

 have, being sometimes so much like a lemon as at first sight to be 

 taken for that fruit. Forsyth says it is excellent for drying. The 

 tree does not attain a large size, but is healthy, hardy, and a good 

 bearer. 



It is uncertain at what period the Lemon Pippin was first brought into notice. 

 Rogers calls it the " Quince Apple," and, if it is what has always been known 

 under that name, it must be of considerable antiquity, being mentioned by Bea, 

 Worlidge, Bay, and almost all the early writers ; but the first instance wherein we 

 find it called Lemon Pippin, is in Ellis's " Modern Husbandman," 1744, where he 

 says it is " esteemed so good an apple for all uses, that many plant this tree prefer- 

 able to all others." 



LEWIS'S INCOMPABABLE.— Fruit, large, three inches wide, and 

 two inches and three quarters high ; conical, broad at the base and 

 narrow at the apex, which is generally higher on one side than the 

 other. Skin, deep lively red, streaked with crimson on the side next 

 the sun, but yellow, faintly streaked with light red, on the shaded side, 

 and strewed with numerous minute russety dots. Eye, small and 

 open, with broad and slightly connivent segments, set in a rather 

 narrow and somewhat angular basin. Stalk, very short, inserted in a 

 wide and deep cavity, which is lined with thin grey russet. Flesh, 

 yellowish, firm, crisp, and juicy, with a brisk and slightly perfumed 

 flavour. 



A useful apple, either for culinary purposes or the dessert, but only 

 of second-rate quality ; it is in use from December to February. 

 The tree attains the largest size, is strong, vigorous, and an abundant 

 bearer. 



Lily Buckland. See Devonshire Buckland. 



LINCOLNSHIRE HOLLAND PIPPIN {Striped Holland Pippin).— 

 Fruit, above medium size, three inches and a half wide, and three 

 inches and a quarter high ; roundish, inclining to ovate, and somewhat 

 angular on the sides. Skin, yellow on the shaded side, but orange, 

 streaked with crimson, on the side next the sun, and studded all over 

 with numerous imbedded green specks. Eye, small, set in a rather 



