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medium length, slender, and deeply inserted. It is a 

 first-rate eating apple from about Christmas until 

 April. It is also excellent for cooking, but seems too 

 good for that purpose. The tree grows well, and is a 

 middling bearer. It has several other names : Bonnet 

 Carre, Winter "White Calville, and Calville Blanche 

 d'Hiver. 



The Court of Wick is a very nice little apple, which 

 is said to have sprung from a seedling from the Golden 

 Pippin, and is well worth cultivating. The fruit is 

 nearly double the size of the Golden Pippin, round and 

 regular in shape, a little flattened at both ends, greenish- 

 yellow, but bright orange with small russet spots where 

 exposed to the sun. The flesh is yellowish, mixed with 

 green, crisp, tender, juicy, and high-flavoured when fully 

 ripe. The eye is large and very open, in a shallow 

 basin, and the stalk is short and slender. It is a very 

 pretty dessert apple from October to April. Other 

 names are Fry's Pippin, Golden Drop, Court de Wick, 

 Knightwick Pippin, Phillips's Eeinette, Wood's Hunt- 

 ingdon, and Wood's Transparent Pippin. The original 

 tree was raised at Court de Wick, in Somersetshire, and 

 it is quite a favourite in the West country. The trees 

 grow well, and are hardy, bearing abundantly within 

 the influence of the sharp blasts from the Welsh 

 mountains, and ripening in such situations better than 

 most kinds. It is an eating apple. 



The Eibston Pippin is a splendid apple, both in 

 beauty and flavour, which no garden should be without. 

 It is of middle size, rather wider than deep, a little 

 irregularly shaped, and slightly flattened at the ends. 

 The colour is bright yellow, russety about the crown 

 and stalk, faintly marked with red streaks round, which 

 become deep and glowing on the sunny side. The eye 

 is small, with a closed calyx, in a rather open, slightly 

 plaited basin, and the stalk is short and knobby, set in a 

 very slightly plaited cavity, and not projecting so far as 

 the base of the fruit. The flesh is firm, crisp, tinted 

 yellow, sweet and rich in a peculiar and delicious 



