By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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shire. The tree is now about twenty feet high, with a spread- 

 ing head extending twenty-seven feet on one side, and eigh- 

 teen on the other ; this difference is owing to its having been 

 lopped. It has a smooth straight stem, seven feet long, 

 measuring twenty-six inches in circumference, at five feet 

 from the ground. It has been rather a shy bearer, but 

 it bore three bushels of fruit in 1813, and four bushels in 

 the last season. Specimens were sent to the Society by 

 William Kent, Esq. on the 3d of November last; it 

 will keep sound till after Christmas, and is well adapted for 

 a late supply for the dessert. It much resembles the 

 Court of Wick Pippin, though it is a superior fruit ; but it is 

 larger and broader in proportion to its length. It is 

 flatly-conical, with an inclination to square, especially near 

 the eye ; its diameters measure two inches and three quarters, 

 and two inches and a quarter ; the head is much flattened 

 and irregular, and the eye is inserted in a broad and shallow 

 cavity, amidst plaits and wrinkles variously formed; the 

 opposite end is also flat and broader than the head; the 

 skin is of a deep, rather dull yellow, tinted on the part ex- 

 posed to the sun with reddish orange, a little inclining to a 

 rich russet, as in the Court of Wick Pippin ; stalk long, in- 

 serted in a regular and well hollowed cavity ; flesh yellowish, 

 firm, very sweet, with a rich vinous acid, a little spicy and 

 having a flavour something resembling that of a Pine; it 

 is rather dry, but this defect will probably diminish with age. 



The Lamb Abbey Pearmain is the fourth. It was raised by 

 Mrs. Malcolm, the Lady of Neill Malcolm, Esq. of 

 Lamb Abbey, in Kent, from the seed of an imported fruit 



