VI. 



THE LOAN PEARMAIN. 



The Loan Pearmain is not, I believe, found in any Cata- 

 logue of Apples of the 17th century ; and if it existed even 

 in the latter part of that period, it was probably as a single 

 seedling tree; for the state of the variety does not now in- 

 dicate any marks of old age, and orchards of it might still 

 be raised ; though they would probably be of short duration. 

 As a Cider Apple the Loan Pearmain possesses much merit, 

 and contains a considerable portion of saccharine matter 

 combined with a good deal of astringency ; but the trees are 

 Tery subject to become much encumbered with a multiplicity 

 of slender shoots, and are by no means good bearers. The 

 specific gravity of the expressed juice is about 1072. 



WoRLiDGE, who wrote in I678 has called the Mary gold 

 Apple " Joanes Pearmain,'' and the anonymous author of 

 the " Complete Tlanter arid Cyderist,'' printed in 1685, has 

 called the same Apple " Lones Pearmain," whence the 

 name of the Loan Pearmain, is, not improbably, derived. 

 The Loans Pearmain, of the nurseries about London, is a 

 different variety. 



