324 Account of the Apples exhibited in 1818. 



Nonesuch, but has a firmer flesh, and higher flavour. It is 

 also a good Apple for the kitchen, and is an excellent 

 keeper. 



Belledge Pippin. This is a Derbyshire Apple, a little 

 more oval than Christie's Pippin, but otherwise externally 

 like it. Its flesh is yellow, melting, and well flavoured. 



Bath Apple. This is also a Derbyshire Apple of consider- 

 able merit ; it is of a handsome form, and possesses a high 

 flavoured, saccharine juice. 



Traverss Apple. This is the produce of a graft received by 

 John Braddick, Esq. from the garden of Richard Tra- 

 vers, Esq. of Loader in Dorsetshire. It very much resembles 

 the Ribston Pippin, in appearance, but its flesh is more 

 melting, its flavour is higher, and it is a much better keeper. 



Eve Apple. This is a handsome, well flavoured Apple, 

 but is not the same as that cultivated under this name by 

 the Scotch gardeners. They have, as has been stated, mis- 

 taken the Manks Codlin for it. 



Pomme de Gele. A small globular Apple ; colour a bright 

 red on an orange ground. Its flesh is firm, very juicy, and 

 with a fine astringent sweetness. 



Sam Young. This is a small globular Apple, with the eye 

 a good deal depressed ; ground colour bright yellow, with 

 minute brown spots, and a considerable quantity of rough 

 leathery russet round the stalk ; in some specimens, bright 

 scarlet to the sun. Flesh inclining to yellow, mixed with 

 green, tender, melting, juicy and intensely sweet, with a 

 delicious flavour, little, if at all inferior to the Golden Pippin. 

 It is an Irish Apple of high reputation, though scarcely 

 known in England. The tree is hardy, and an abundant 



