PLATE XXXIII. 
2. PITMASTON RUSSET. 
[Syn : Pitmaston Nonpareil; Pitmaston Russet Nonpareil; St. Johns Nonpareil; Russet 
Coat Nonpareil.~\ 
This excellent variety was raised by Mr. John Williams of Pitmaston, in the Parish of 
St. John’s, near Worcester. It was a seedling from the Nonpareil , and the tree first bore fruit in 
1815. It was exhibited at the London Horticultural Society 1818, in the name of Pitmaston 
Russet Nonpareil , and a coloured representation is given of it in Vol. Ill of the Society’s 
Transactions, Plate 10. 
Description .—Fruit: above medium size, three inches wide and two and a half high; 
roundish and flattened. Skin : pale green, almost entirely covered with russet, and with a faint 
tinge of red on the side next the sun. Eye : open, set in a broad, shallow and plaited basin. 
Stalk : short, inserted in a shallow cavity. Flesh : greenish yellow, firm, rich, and highly aromatic. 
This is a dessert apple of the greatest excellence, in season from December to February. 
