APPLE. 



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brown very smooth bark. It seems to bid defiance 

 to the American blight, and forms a handsome tree 

 in the orchard. When worked on the paradise stock, 

 the fruit are not so long-keeping as when grafted on 

 the common crab. 



This apple has been long known in England, 

 being noticed by Langley and Miller in the begin- 

 ning of the last century. It has been sometimes 

 confounded with another name ; viz, the Easter pip- 

 pin, which is making a distinction where there is no 

 difference. Nothing can be more absurd than thi^ 

 error of multiplying names, which can answer no 

 good purpose. Indeed the author considers it a 

 species of crime, because it is a downright imposi- 

 tion on the public. 



The following are apples, which may be classed 

 under the general name Codlins, because of the simi- 

 larity of their culinary qualities ; viz. — 



58. English Codlin, — May be used from June to 

 September. The fruit is above the middle size, and 

 irregularly shaped ; the colour light-green tinged 

 with red. The pulp is soft, white, pretty juicy, and 

 of a peculiar flavour. It is a tree of the second 

 class in the orchard, and an abundant bearer. The 

 crab stock, and any soil except strong clay or loose 

 gravel, is suitable. Even stout truncheons of the 

 branches planted in moist ground, as the banks of 

 mill-ponds or ditches, will strike root, and become 

 large thriving trees. 



The codlin was once indispensable in English 

 cookery; but since codlins and cream'' have al- 



