§18 Notices of New or remarkable 



from Mr. Cameron, a nurseryman at Uckfield, in Sussex, 

 who cultivated the variety, with the name of Shepherd's 

 Apple, under the supposition that it is a seedling, raised some 

 years ago by a person named Shepherd, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Uckfield. It resembles, however, so closely the 

 Reinette blanche d'Espagne, of which specimens, of nearly 

 equal size, have several times been received from Paris by 

 the Society, as to cause a doubt of the fact of Shepherd 

 having raised it. Whatever it may be, it is a most valuable 

 variety, on account of its beauty, size, and keeping quality, 

 for it frequently remains sound till the next season ; it is ex- 

 cellent as a baking Apple. For these reasons, it highly 

 deserves a more extended cultivation, especially as it gene- 

 rally bears well. Until the fact of its origin is decidedly 

 cleared up, it will be proper to call it the Alfriston Apple. 



The Rev. Sir John Thoroton sent to the second 

 Meeting in March, 1820, specimens of a seedling Golden 

 Pippin, raised about eleven years ago in his garden, at 

 Screveton, in Nottinghamshire, where the original tree now 

 is. It is a little larger than the Old Golden Pippin, with a 

 yellowish skin, a good deal russetted. The flesh is yellow, 

 more tender than the Old Golden Pippin, and little, if at all, 

 inferior to it in flavour. Plants of this very superior variety, 

 which it is proposed to call the Screveton Golden Pippin, have 

 been subsequently presented by Sir John Thoroton to 

 the Garden of the Society. 



Mr. Hasler CA^RON,of Midhurst, in Sussex, exhibited 

 at the Meeting in March, and afterwards in May, 1820, spe- 

 cimens of an Apple, gathered from the tree in January, 

 having endured, without protection, the severity of the 



