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XXXVII. A short Account of a new Apple, called the 

 Spring Grove Codling. By the Right Hon. Sir Joseph 

 Banks, Bart. K. B. P. R. S. $c. 



Read April 3, 1810 



At the request of Mr. Knight, I beg leave to lay before 

 the Society, the opinion formed by my friends and myself 

 last autumn, on the merits of an Apple produced by one of 

 his judicious mixtures, which he has done me the honour 

 to call the Spring Grove Codling. 



In the beginning of September, I received a small box of 

 these Apples, which were fully ripe ; when baked, they had 

 all the quickness, and flavour, of the best winter Apples, and 

 a considerable tinge of red. 



All who tasted the pye, agreed, they had not met with 

 any autumn Apple which, for baking, could be compared 

 to this new one. Mr. Knight informs me, that it is ready 

 for use in the month of July, at a season when London 

 Geese are probably better than at any other, but when the 

 old English accompaniment of Apple sauce was not, till 

 Mr. Knight furnished us with this Apple, possible to be 

 obtained ; in this view it becomes an addition of import- 

 ance to the old English kitchen, the cookery of which, true 

 Englishmen still prefer to French ragouts, or to Spanish 

 olios. 



It proves of the Burr Apple kind, and may be therefore, 



