Notices of new or remarkable 



Apples. 



William Atkinson, Esq. exhibited specimens of the 

 Red Astrachan Apple, the produce of a tree in his garden, 

 imported from Sweden with that name. This is one of the 

 very best of the early Apples. Its form, generally, is round, 

 with somewhat indistinct angles on the sides. The eye is in 

 a tolerably deep cavity, surrounded by a few knobby pro- 

 tuberances. The stalk is short, deeply inserted. The skin 

 is green on the shaded side, becoming a greenish yellow 

 when quite ripe ; red on the exposed side, spotted with 

 russet, and having a little coarse russet surrounding the 

 stalk. The greater part of the surface is covered with a de- 

 licate whitish meal like the bloom of a plum, which, when 

 the fruit is seen at a little distance, gives it much the appear- 

 ance of a Peach. The flesh is white and crisp, with abun- 

 dance of rich sugared acid juice. This Apple is very ex- 

 cellent before it becomes quite ripe, but turns woolly in a 

 few days, and if suffered to hang long on the tree, is apt 

 to split. The tree is very vigorous in habit, and an abundant 

 bearer. The fruit ripens about the middle of August. 



Mr. Atkinson at the same time sent specimens of the Revel- 

 stone Pippin, the produce of a tree received from Scotland. 

 This is enumerated among the table Apples usually planted 

 against walls in the gardens in the Carse of Gowrie.* In this 

 country it does well as a standard, and is an abundant bearer. 

 It is of the middle size, somewhat angular on the sides, the 

 angular projections uniting round the eye in large knobs. 

 Stalk short and thick, inserted in a very regular cavity. Skin, 



* Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, Vol. i. page 327. 



