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5. HOOD’S SEEDLING. 
It is of a pyramidal shape and medium size; flat at the top, with a long slender stalk 
deeply inserted. This is a very handsome apple, yellow with a good deal of bright 
red, hut little striped. The fruit is of firm consistence, sweet, hut rather mealy if too 
long kept. Ripe in December and January. It is a great bearer and good grower. 
6. GOLDEN PEARMAIN. 
A dessert apple, in shape resembling the Golden Pippin, but a little larger. It has a 
yellow ground, with some slight russet and a good deal of red striping. This is one 
of the first-rate winter dessert apples ; it is firm, rich, and highly flavoured. The 
tree is of upright growth and bears well, but is rather delicate and requires good 
ground. 
Blossoms white. 
7. CITRON DES CARMES. 
A small French dessert apple of an oblong shape, angulated and pursed at the eye, 
of a light brown colour, a little russety; rich in flavour, but rather deficient in juice. 
Mature in December and January. 
8. BESS, OR BEST POOL. 
This apple, which I believe to be correctly named, is a much-esteemed Warwickshire 
fruit, of middle size and Pearmaiu shape, tapering to a small eye; of a pea-green 
colour, richly embroidered with red stripes of various shades; has frequently a small 
rising at the stalk : of a rich and poignant flavour. In use from November till Fe¬ 
bruary. In general a good bearer, from being unusually late in flowering. 
9. COCIOLE PIPPIN. 
An excellent apple, of middle size, much cultivated in Sussex. It is of an oval form, 
rather tapering to the eye, pea-green colour, a good deal embroidered with russet: 
a compact long-keeping sort, juicy and highly flavoured; estimable either for the 
table or kitchen use. Grows in a spreading form, is in general healthy, and bears 
well. 
