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XXI. An Account of the Burr-knot Apple. In a Letter to 

 Henry Grimston, Esq. F. H. S. By the Rev. John 

 Simpson. 



Read Dec. 6, 1808. 



My Dear Sir, 



Yo u r letter met me on my return home after a month's 

 ramble among the mountains and lakes in Cumberland, and 

 1 now send you a short description of the Apple Tree called 

 here the Burr-knot. At a proper season I will forward to 

 you a few knots, or knobs of it for trial, which, put into the 

 ground, will make a long shoot the following spring ; or if 

 you wish it, I will send you a few knobbed branches with 

 blossom buds upon them, which will bear a little the same 

 year, but you must observe the smaller knobbed branches 

 with blossom buds will not make such fine or handsome trees 

 as the others. 



The Burr-knot * Apple tree is uncommonly productive. 

 My trees never miss bearing, not being so liable to blight 

 in inclement seasons, as other varieties. The fruit is large, its 

 tints resembling the Ribston Pippin, and it is nearly of the 

 same size. For culinary uses, it is not inferior to the choicest 

 Codlin, and is a much better keeper. The tree is not liable 

 to canker, owing, 1 am persuaded, to its not putting out a 



* Specimens of the fruit, and branches of this Apple tree from Rooss, which 

 is also plentiful in Lord Hawkesbury's garden at Combe, were exhibited at the 

 meeting of the Society, when this Paper was read. 



