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the American apples of the eating kind ; after which I shall 

 make an observation or two upon cider apples. Those of 

 the King's gardens are as follows : Borstoff Apple, Golden 

 Harvey y Golden Hennett , GoldenRusset,Juneting, Mar gill, Com- 

 mon Nonpareil, Scarlet Nonpareil, Nonsuch, Brooke's Pippin, 

 Cockle Pippin, Court-of- Wick Pippin, Downton Pippin, Fearns 

 Pippin, Frankland' s Pippin, Golden Pippin, Padley's Pippin, 

 Red IngestriePippin,Rihston Pippin, Robinson's Pippin, Ronald's 

 Pippin, Summer Pippin, Spice Pippin, Pomme d'Api, Pomme 

 Noire, Pomme Grise, Quarenden, Sack-and- Sugar , Syke House, 

 Bigg's Nonsuch, Summer Codlin, Autumn Codlin, Spring Codlin, 

 Costard, French Crab, French Minchin, Hawthorn Bean, Kirke's 

 Scarlet Admirable, Lemon Pippin, Minier's Dumpling, Norfolk 

 Beaujin, Autumn Pear main. Scarlet Pear main. Winter Pear main. 

 On the American apples I can offer some opinion. The earliest is 

 Woolley's Summer Pearmain ; and I call it Woolley's because Mr. 

 WooLLEY of North Hempstead introduced me to the knowledge 

 of it J and gave me some of the fruit in the year 1817. It is 

 a long apple, shaped somewhat like the old English pearmain, 

 beautifully striped red and white, an-d ripe in the month of 

 August. The apple which succeeds this is the Fall Pippin, 

 and it continues to be good to eat until the middle of No- 

 vember. Then comes the Greening, which continues to be very 

 good to eat until February ; and then comes the Newtown Pippin, 

 which, if properly preserved, is very good to eat until the month of 

 June. For my own part, I should wish for no sorts but these, ex- 

 cept I added Conklin's Pie Apple, the reputation of which is very 

 great. There is the Doctor Apple, of exceeding beauty, and very 

 good until late in November ; but, indeed, after January comes, 

 there is no apple wanted either for eating raw or cooking, but the 

 Newtown Pippin, which, to the qualities of fine relish and long 

 keeping, adds the other great quality of being a surprisingly great 

 bearer. It hardly ever totally fails, even when other trees do ; 

 and it generally has a large crop. I have a tree in my garden, at 

 Kensington, which was covered with fruit in 1826. It stood 

 against a wall, and I was afiaid that it would be killed by a foul 

 drain oozing through the wall from the out-premises of one of my 

 neighbours : I moved it, therefore, in the month of April, 1827, to 

 another part of the garden, and, large as it was, it is now (May 

 1 828) well loaded with fruit. I never saw anything more beautiful 



