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PLATE XIL 
1. COURT PENDU PLAT ROUGEATRE. 
An estimable dessert apple of Nonpareil size; very flat in shape, and the eye much 
sunk in a wide cavity; the colour yellow; a good deal covered with full red; it is 
of high saccharine flavour and close consistence: the fruit keeps till February or 
March. The tree grows upright, and bears well. 
The flowers are pink and white. 
2. FEARN’S PIPPIN. 
A middle-sized table apple, globular, a little flattened, yellow coloured, about three 
quarters covered with deep red ; the eye rather prominent. This is generally ranked 
among the first-rate dessert apples at Christmas: it is of close texture and rich 
flavour; in eating December, January, and February. Tbe tree grows and bears well. 
Blossoms white, with a little pink. 
3. COURT OF WICK, or RIVAL GOLDEN PIPPIN. 
A dessert apple from Somersetshire, which vies with the Golden Pippin in richness 
of flavour, and much excells it in other respects; it is rather larger in shape, of a 
golden hue with red stripes, very handsome. This is esteemed the finest Christmas 
apple we have; keeps well till February or March. The tree is of wide spreading 
growth, seldom cankers, and never fails bearing. 
Blossoms white, with a little light pink. 
4. MARGIL. 
Is an old dessert apple of great excellence, although not so showy in appearance as 
many other sorts : it is of middle size and pyramidal shape; the eye small and very 
little* sunk, encompassed with several small angles; the ground colour yellowish 
green, with dull red, chiefly on the exposed side; the flesh rich, crisp, and juicy: 
this is a rival of the Ribston Pippin: it excells it in juiciness, and in being of a better 
size for the dessert: is in perfection from October till February. The tree is of mo¬ 
derate growth, and rather uncertain in bearing, from some tenderness in the blossom. 
