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the side next the sun. Eye, small and closed, set in a rather shallow 

 basin. Stalk, half an inch long, slender, and deeply inserted. Flesh, 

 yellowish white, firm, crisp, teider, and juicy, with a brisk and pleasant 

 flavour. 



An excellent culinary apple, and serviceable also for the dessert ; it 

 is in use from November to April, when it is perfectly sound, and shows 

 no symptoms of shrivelling. 



The tree attains about the middle size, is not a strong grower, but 

 quite hardy,_ and an excellent bearer. 



Although there is no record of this variety in the writings of any pomological 

 author before Mr. Lindley, it is nevertlieless a very old English apple. In an 

 ancient note-book of an ancestor of the Trevelyans, of Nettlecombe, in Somerset- 

 shire, so early as 1 580, the " Lounden Peppen " is mentioned among the " names 

 of Appelles which I had their graifes from Brentmarch, from one Mr. Pace." 

 From this we may learn that we are not to take for granted the non-existence of 

 any variety, simply because there is no notice of it, previous to the period when it 

 may have been first recorded, in works on pomology. This has been erroneously 

 called Royal Somerset, which see. 



LONG NOSE. — Fruit, rather below medium size, two inches and a 

 half high, and about the same in width at the base ; conical, with 

 prominent angles on the sides. Skin, smooth and shining, grass-green, 

 changing to greenish yeUow, with a cloud of bright red on the side 

 exposed to the sun. Eye, closed, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, a 

 quarter of an inch long, fleshy at the insertion, sometimes with a fleshy 

 protuberance on one side of it, and inserted in a narrow, shallow, and 

 russety cavity. Flesh, yellowish white, crisp, and tender, with a 

 slightly sweet, but rather indifferent flavour. 



An apple of little merit, being of no value either for culinary purposes or the 

 dessert j it is in season from October to December, and is met with in the Berk- 

 shire orchards. 



LONGSTAET (Westmoreland Longstart). — Fruit, medium sized; 

 roundish, narrowing towards the eye, somewhat like the old Nonpareil 

 in shape. Skin, almost entirely covered with red, which is streaked 

 with deeper red, except on the shaded side, where ttiere is a patch of 

 greenish yellow, tinged with thin red. Eye, partially open, with broad 

 flat segments, and set in a shallow and plaited basin. Stalk, about an 

 inch long, inserted in a wide cavity, which is lined with russet. Flesh, 

 white, crisp, tender, juicy, with a pleasant sub-acid flavour. 



A very excellent culinary apple ; comes in use during October, and 

 lasts till Christmas. 



This variety is much grown about Lancaster, and some parts of Westmoreland, 

 where it is a great favourite among the cottagers. 



LONGVILLE'S KERNEL {Sam's Crab).— Fmit, below medium 

 size, two inches and a half wide, and two inches and a quai-ter high ; 

 ovato, shghtly angular, but handsomely shaped. Skin, greenish yellow, 

 tinged with red, and streaked with dark red on the side next the sun. 

 Eye, small and open, with short erect segments, set in a deep and 



