THE APPLE. 



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of Scotch origin. We have received excellent 

 specimens from Mr Archibald Gorrie, the raiser. 

 Size medium, quality good, exceedingly beauti- 

 ful, and in condition for the dessert during 

 January and February. Tree perfectly hardy, 

 and a good bearer. 



Ashmead's kernel. — Colour yellow, covered 

 with dots of russet ; form oblate ; size medium ; 

 quality excellent. In use from November to 

 May. Tree hardy, a good bearer, but most of 

 all esteemed for its long keeping. Possessing so 

 much of the richness of the nonpareil as to lead 

 to the belief that it is a seedling from that 

 variety. 



Baddow pippin. — Colour deep lively green, 

 changing as it ripens to yellowish green on the 

 shaded side, dull red on the side next the sun, 

 changing to orange ; form roundish or oblate ; 

 size medium. In use in November, keeping till 

 April and May. Quality first-rate, partaking 

 somewhat of the Ribston and nonpareil. Com- 

 paratively of modern origin, being only intro- 

 duced to public notice in 1848. Synonym, 

 Spring Ribston. 



Barton's incomparable. — Colour yellowish 

 green, covered with patches of pale-brown rus- 

 set ; form ovate or conical ; size below medium. 

 In use from October to February. Quality of 

 the highest excellence. Tree healthy, attaining 

 a large size, and an excellent bearer. " This 

 variety," Mr Hogg observes, " seems to be but 

 little known, and, considering its excellence, 

 rarely cultivated. I am not aware that it exists 

 in any of the nurseries, or that it was at any 

 period extensively propagated. The only place 

 where I ever met with it was in the private gar- 

 den of the late Mr Lee of Hammersmith, whence 

 I procured grafts from a tree in the last stage of 

 decay." It is probable that trees of it may exist 

 in the nurseries of Messrs J. and C. Lee at Ham- 

 mersmith, or in the Brompton Nursery. It is a 

 variety that should be rescued from oblivion. 



Beachamwell. — Colour yellow ; form ovate ; 

 size smallish ; quality first-rate. In use from De- 

 cember to March. Synonyms — Motteux seedling, 

 Beachamwell seedling. Tree very hardy, but does 

 not attain a large size, and is by no means so 

 extensively cultivated as its merits deserve. 



Borsdorffer. — Colour yellow and red ; form 

 oval ; size smallish ; quality first-rate. In use 

 from November till March. This is a German 

 apple of great merit, but rather tender for the 

 north of England, and most of Scotland. 



Breedon pippin. — Colour dull yellow, tinged 

 with orange, inclining to red on the side most 

 exposed to the sun ; form roundish ; size small. 

 In use during October and November. Quality 

 one of our best dessert apples, somewhat resem- 

 bling and exceeding in flavour the Court of 

 Wick. Tree hardy, not attaining a large size, 

 and an abundant bearer. 



Christie's pippin. — Colour yellow, tinged with 

 green on the shaded side, mottled with russet 

 and red spots next the sun ; form oblate and 

 very handsome ; size medium. In use from 

 December to February. Tree constitutionally 

 weak, subject to canker and mildew. When 

 wrought on the paradise stock, it forms a com- 

 pact and handsome little pyramid. Quality 



first-rate for dessert, and withal a very abun- 

 dant bearer. 



Clara pippin. — A new dessert apple of con- 

 siderable merit. It is a seedling from a pip of 

 the Court of Wick. Fruit about the size of the 

 parent; flesh firm, orange; flavour rich and 

 sugary ; keeps till the end of May. Skin rather 

 tough, orange yellow on the one side, tinged 

 with brownish red on the other side. Originated 

 with F. J. Graham, Esq., prior to 1848. 



Cockle pippin. — Colour brown and yellow ; 

 form ovate ; size medium ; quality first-rate. In 

 use from December till April. Slender-growing 

 tree, but an excellent bearer, and very hardy. 

 Ripens well as a standard at Dalkeith. Known 

 also as Nutmeg cockle pippin, Nutmeg pippin. 

 White cockle pippin, and Brown cockle pippin. 



Colonel Vaughan's. — Colour waxen yellow, 

 streaked with crimson on the shaded side, bright 

 crimson streaked with very dark crimson, thickly 

 strewed with greyish-white dots on the side 

 next the sun ; form oblato-conical, or conical ; 

 size below medium. In use in September and 

 October. Quality very excellent for the dessert. 

 Not met with in general cultivation, but is very 

 extensively grown in Kent for the supply of 

 Covent Garden market. 



Cornish aromatic. — Colour russety red ; form 

 roundish ; size large ; quality first-rate. In use 

 from October to January. Tree a free grower, 

 and an excellent bearer. Synonym, Aromatic 

 pippin. 



Court-pendu Plat. — Colour dark-red ; form 

 oblate ; size medium ; quality first-rate. In use 

 from December till April. This is evidently of 

 French origin, and is one of the most popular 

 apples on the Continent. Too tender for Scot- 

 land and the north of England, unless planted 

 against a wall, where it ripens to perfection, but 

 seldom attains its fine colour. Its foreign syno- 

 nyms are numerous. In England it is some- 

 times called Wollaton pippin, Gar?ion , s apple, at 

 which latter place we saw some years ago many 

 trees of it in great luxuriance as open standards, 

 and learned from the proprietor, the late Sir 

 John G. Cotterall, that his father had brought 

 them from France. It has the peculiarity of 

 blossoming late, and hence often escapes the 

 spring frosts : and accordingly Mr R. Thomson 

 says it has been called the wise apple. 



Court of Wick. — Colour yellow ; form oblate ; 

 size under medium ; quality first-rate. In use 

 from October till March. Tree slender in 

 growth; good bearer; one of our best dessert 

 fruits. It does not appear to be much culti- 

 vated in Scotland. At Dalkeith it ripens well on 

 dwarf standards. As is the case with most good 

 fruits, it has a host of synonyms — as Golden 

 drop, Wick's pippin, Fry's pippin, Phillip's 

 reinette, Kingswick pippin, Wood's new trans- 

 parent, Wood's Huntington. There is a scarlet 

 Court of Wick, but that is inferior, and should 

 be guarded against. 



Crofton scarlet.— Colour brownish red; form 

 oblate ; size medium ; quality good. In use from 

 October to December. Synonym — Red Crofton. 



Crofton white. — Similar to the last, only of a 

 paler colour. Keeping only till the beginning of 

 November, and somewhat inferior in quality. 



