106 THE FKUIT MANUAL. 



Stalk, short, inserted in a shallow and very contracted cavity. Flesh, 

 pure white, firm, and crisp, tender, and very juicy ; the juice brisk 

 and pleasantly acid, and not unlike that of Dumelow's Seedling. 

 A valuable culinary apple ; in use till April. 



This fruit has all the appearance of having been raised from Buraelow's 

 Seedling. 



Orange Pippin. See Isle of Wight Pippin. 



OED'S APPLE (Simpson's Pippin). — Fruit, medium sized ; conical 

 or oblong, very irregular in its outline, caused by prominent and 

 unequal ribs on the sides, which extend to and terminate in ridges 

 round the eye. Skin, smooth and shining, deep grassy green, strewed 

 with imbedded grey specks, and dotted with brown russety dots on the 

 shaded side, but washed with thin brownish red, which is marked 

 with spots or patches of darker and UveHer red, and strewed with star- 

 like freckles of russet on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, small and 

 closed, placed in a rather deep and angular basin, which is hned with 

 linear marks of rough russet. Stalk, about half an inch long, somewhat 

 obliquely inserted by the side of a fleshy swelling, which is more or 

 less prominent. Flesh, greenish white, tender, crisp, and brittle, 

 abounding in a profusion of rich, brisk, sugary, and vinous juice, with 

 a finely perfumed and refreshing flavour. 



An excellent apple, of first-rate quahty, and well deserving of more 

 general cultivation ; it is in use from January to May, and keeps well. 



This excellent variety originated at Purser's Cross, near Fulham, Middlesex. 

 It was raised in the garden of John Ord, Esq., by his sister-in-law, Mrs. Anne 

 Simpson, from seed of a Newtown Pippin imported in 1777. 



OrgeUne. See Oslin. 



Orglon. See Oslin. 



Original Pippin. See Oslin. 



Ortley. See Woolman's Long. 



OSLIN (Orglon ; OrgeUne ; Arbroath Pippin ; Original Pippin ; 

 Mother Apple; Golden Apple; Bur-Knot; Summer Oslin). — Fruit, 

 medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and two inches high ; 

 roundish-oblate, evenly and regularly formed. Skin, thick and mem- 

 branous, of a fine pale yellow colour, and thickly strewed with brown 

 dots ; very frequently cracked, forming large and deep sinuosities on 

 the fruit. Eye, scarcely at all depressed. Stalk, short and thick, 

 inserted in a very shallow cavity. Flesh, yellowish, firm, crisp and 

 juicy, rich and sugary, with a highly aromatic flavour, which is pecuhar 

 to this apple only. 



A dessert apple of the highest excellence ; ripe in the end of August, 

 and continues during September, but does not last long. Nicol says, 

 " This is an excellent apple; as to flavour it is outdone by none but the 

 Nonpareil, over which it has this advantage, that it will ripen in a 

 worse climate and a worse aspect." The tree is a free grower, of an 



