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broad ovate segments, set in a wide, shallow, and plaited basin. Stalk, 

 a quarter of an inch long, inserted in a narrow and shallow cavity. 

 Flesh, white, soft, tender, juicy, and briskly acid. 



An excellent culinary apple ; in use from October to February. 



WHITE WESTLING. — Fruit, rather below medium size, two 

 inches and a half broad at the middle, and two inches and a half high; 

 roundish, inclining to oval, towards the eye ; angular on the sides, 

 and ribbed round the apex. Skin, yellow, tinged with green, and 

 strewed with reddish brown dots on the shaded side, but deep yellow, 

 with large dark crimson spots, on the side next the sun, and covered 

 with russet over the base. Eye, small and closed, set in a narrow 

 and angular basin. Stalk, half an inch long, very slender, inserted in 

 a deep, narrow, and russety cavity. Flesh, white, tender, sweet, and 

 briskly flavoured. 



An apple of hardly second-rate quality, grown about the north-eastern 

 parts of Sussex ; it is in use from October to Christmas. 



WHITE WINE. — Fruit, about medium size, two inches and a 

 half broad in the middle, and two inches and a half high, narrow- 

 ing towards the apex ; conical, slightly angular on the sides, and 

 ribbed round the eye. Skin, greenish yellow, strewed with russety 

 dots on the shaded side, but deep yellow, reticulated with fine russet, 

 and dotted with small russety specks on the side exposed to the sun, 

 and with a ray of fine lilac-purple on the base encircling the stalk. 

 Eye, open, with long acute segments, set in a deep and ribbed basin. 

 Stalk, five-eighths of an inch long, downy, thick, and fleshy, inserted 

 in a round cavity, which is lined with delicate russet. Flesh, white, 

 firm, crisp, and pleasantly acid. 



A culinary apple much grown in the Tweedside orchards, where it 

 is known by the name of the Wine Apple ; it is in use from October 

 to Christmas. 



WHITMORE PIPPIN.— Fruit, below medium size, two inches and 

 a quarter wide at the base, and the same in height, but narrowing to- 

 wards the apex ; conical, and obtusely angled on the sides. Skin, pale 

 greenish yellow in the shade, but with a beautiful red cheek next the 

 sun, and very sparingly strewed with a few minute dots. Eye, closed. 

 Bet in a narrow and shallow basin. Stalk, about half an inch long, in- 

 serted in a wide, round, and even cavity. Flesh, white, tinged with 

 green, tender, juicy, sub-acid, and slightly sweet. 



A dessert apple of second-rate quality ; in use from November to 

 April. 



WHORLE PIPPIN {Summer Thorle ; Watson's New Nonesuch; 

 Thorle Pippin ; Lady Derby). — Fruit, below medium size, two inches 

 and a quarter wide at the middle, and an inch and three quarters high ; 

 oblate, handsome, and regularly formed. Skin, smooth, shining, and 

 glossy, almost entirely covered with fine bright crimson, which is 



