Varieties of Fruits. 



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Henry Stoe, Esq. exhibited specimens of an Apple, cul- 

 tivated by him at Hammersmith, and called the Wise Apple, 

 from its flowering so very late in the season as to escape the 

 spring frosts ; it consequently is a certain bearer. It is of 

 the middle size, conical, skin yellow, striped with red. The 

 tree is very ornamental in its growth, and retains its leaves 

 till they are taken off by the frost. 



John Sudlow, Esq. sent from his garden, at Thames 

 Ditton, specimens of the Fall Pippin, the produce of a graft 

 obtained from America. It is small, being about two inches in 

 diameter each way : eye large, in a wide shallow cavity, 

 surrounded by regular folds or plaits ; stalk long, inserted in 

 an even cavity, of moderate depth ; skin yellow, partially 

 tinged with green, which is more visible round the stalk and 

 eye : the whole sprinkled with minute brown spots : flesh, 

 inclining to yellow, crisp, very juicy, with a rich pleasant 

 acidity. It ripens in November. It is not the Fall Pippin 

 described in Coxes work on American Fruits, the one there 

 mentioned is the kind of which grafts were distributed by the 

 Society in March, 1819, which were sent to England by Mr. 

 Cobbett. The Apple now noticed having, however, been 

 some time known here by that appellation, which seems to be 

 applied by the Americans to several that ripen in the autum- 

 nal season, will be best distinguished, if called Sudlow' s Fall 

 Pippin. 



Mr. Charles Brooker, of Alfriston, near Lewes, sent 

 a large Apple from a tree in his garden ; it weighed twenty- 

 three ounces and three-quarters. The fruit in general is very 

 large, though the particular specimen was the largest of any 

 that have been gathered. Mr. Brooker procured the tree 



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