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upright habit, and an excellent bearer, but is subject to canker as it 

 grows old. The branches are generally covered with a number of 

 knobs or burrs ; and when planted in the ground these burrs throw 

 out numerous fibres which take root and produce a perfect tree. 



This is a very old Scotch apple, supposed to have originated at Arbroath j or to 

 have been introduced from France by the monks of the abbey which formerly 

 existed at that place. The latter opinion is, in all probability, the correct one, 

 although the name, or any of the synonyraes quoted above, are not now to be met 

 with in any modern EVench lists. But in the " Jardinier Francois," which was 

 published in 1651, I find an apple mentioned under the name of Orgeran, which is 

 so similar in pronunciation to Orgeline, I think it not unlikely it may be the same 

 name with a change of orthography, especially as our ancestors were not over 

 particular in preserving unaltered the names of foreign introductions. 



OSTERLEY PIPPIN — Fruit, rather below medium size, two inches 

 and a half wide, and two inches and a quarter high ; orbicular, flattened 

 at the base and apex. Skin, yellowish green, strewed with thin russet 

 and russety dots on the shaded side, but washed with thin red, and 

 strewed with russety specks on the side next the sun. Bye, large and 

 open, with short stunted segments, set in a wide and shallow basin. 

 Stalk, half an inch long, inserted in a wide and rather shallow cavity, 

 which is lined with thin russet. Flesh, greenish yellow, firm, crisp, 

 rich, juicy, and sugary, with a brisk and aromatic flavour, somewhat 

 resembling, and little inferior to the Ribston Pippin. 



A handsome and very excellent dessert apple ; it is in use from 

 October to February, and is not subject to be attacked with the grub 

 as the Ribston Pippin is. 



This variety was raised from the seed of the Bibston Pippin at Osterley Park, 

 the seat of the Earl of Jersey, near Isleworth, Middlesex, where the original tree 

 is still in existence. 



Owen's Golden Beauty. See Joanneting. 

 Ox Apple. See Gloria Mundi. 

 Oxford Peach. See Scarlet Pearmain. 



OXNEAD PEARMAIN (Earl of Yarmouth's Pearmain).~Frm.t, 

 small and conical. Skin, entirely grass green, always covered with a 

 thin russet ; sometimes when highly ripened it is tinged with a very 

 pale brown on the sunny side. Eye, very small, surrounded with a 

 few obscure plaits. Stalk, very slender, three quarters of an inch 

 long. Flesh, pale green, very firm and crisp, not juicy, but very rich 

 and highly flavoured. 



A dessert apple ; in use from November to April. 



I have never seen this apple. It was first noticed by Mr. George Lindley, whose 

 description of it I have given above. He says, " It is supposed to have originated 

 at Oxnead, near Norwich, the seat of the Earl of Yarmouth. It has been known 

 many years in Norfolk, no doubt prior to the extinction of that peerage in 1733, 

 and I have never seen it out of the county. The tree is a very small grower ; its 

 branches are small and wiry, and of a grass green colour ; it is very hardy and an 

 excellent bearer." 



