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PLATE XXXII. 
1. API, PETITE. 
Or Lady Apple of the Americans. A very small pojjular French dessert apple, flat¬ 
tened in shape, with several prominences round the eye; the stalk deeply seated, straw 
colour, beautifully flushed with crimson. It has a pleasant flavour, and will keep 
till March or April; bears in clusters, and is sometimes called the Pompone Apple. 
The tree is of upright growth, with small reflexed leaves. 
2. AMERICAN PLATE APPLE. 
In shape like the old Golden Pippin, hut rather smaller, greenish on the under side, 
and has a brown tinge on the exposed. It is a remarkably profuse bearer, the fruit 
hanging close round the stem like gooseberries or ropes of small onions ; is crisp, 
juicy, and of pleasant flavour: in eating in December and January. The tree is of 
humble growth, but hardy, and seldom cankers. 
3. ROBINSON’S PIPPIN. 
In size and shape resembling the Golden Pippin, but broader and flatter at the eye; 
of a yellowish green, with russet and a little dull red on the outward side. It is a 
very excellent table apple, eats crisp and juicy like the Nonpareil; keeps well till 
March or April: of slender, upright growth, little apt to canker, and produces fruit 
in abundance in clusters. 
4. ISLE OF WIGHT PIPPIN. 
A beautiful small dessert apple, of globular shape; the eye and stalk prominent, of 
a golden colour, with a flush of orauge. It is very excellent and richly flavoured. 
In perfection in January and February.—Blossoms white. 
5. ASHMEAD’S KERNEL. 
An excellent table apple. The original tree is in the garden of Mr. Griffiths of Glou¬ 
cester, where it was raised by Mr. Ashraead, his predecessor. Mr. G. informs me that 
the tree is a hundred years old, and that it still continues to bear tolerably well. 
It is about the size and shape of a Nonpareil, of a brown russet mingled with green, 
and a little faint red on the outward side. A very nice crisp fruit, in perfection from 
December till February. 
