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LXXIV. Some Account and Description of Ord's Apple. 

 By Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq. F.R.S.fyc. 



Read January 7, 1817. 



Fo r the following account of this most excellent Apple, I 

 am chiefly indebted to Mrs. Ann Simpson, the sister of Mrs. 

 Ord ; the flowers and fruit however have been described 

 from very perfect specimens sent to me by that lady. 



About forty years ago, the late John Ord, Esq. raised in 

 his garden at Purser's Cross near Fulham, an Apple tree, 

 from the seed of the New-Town Pippin imported from North 

 America ; when this tree began to bear, its fruit, though with- 

 out any external beauty, proved remarkably good, and had 

 a peculiar quality, namely, a melting softness in eating, so 

 that it might be said almost to dissolve in the mouth. The 

 late Mr. Lee, of Hammersmith, often had grafts of this tree, 

 and he sold the plant so raised first with the name of Ord's 

 Apple, and subsequently with the name of New-Tmvn 

 Pippin. 



This seedling tree is now of large dimensions, its trunk 

 being 4 feet 4 inches round at a yard above the ground ; but 

 it has of late years been very unhealthy, and scarcely borne 

 any fruit worth gathering, its roots having no doubt pene- 

 trated into a stratum of unfavourable soil. 



Mrs. Ann Simpson being as fond of gardening as her 

 iate brother-in-law Mr. Ord, with whom she resided, was 

 induced to sow some Pippins of this tree raised by him ; 



