PLATE LXIII. 
i. COE’S GOLDEN DROP. 
It has been said that this variety is a very old apple, which has existed for very many years 
in some Essex orchards. It was introduced to notice by one Gervase Coe, a market gardener, at 
Bury St. Edmunds, towards the close of the last century (c. 1790). Mr. Coe was the man who 
raised the Golden Drop Plum , and he is said to have propagated this apple as a seedling of his own, 
and given it the corresponding name. 
Description .—Fruit : small and conical; even and regular in shape. Skin : yellow with a 
few crimson spots next the sun, and marked with small patches of thin delicate russet. Eye : small 
and open, even with the surface, and surrounded with a few shallow plaits. Stalk : three quarters 
of an inch long, inserted in a small and shallow depression, which, together with the base, is entirely 
covered with russet. Flesh : greenish yellow, firm, crisp, and very juicy, brisk, sweet, and vinous. 
A delicious little dessert apple of the first quality, in season from November to May. 
The tree is hardy, a free and upright grower, and bears well. It does well on the paradise 
stock, for dwarf and espalier trees, but for market purposes, should be grown as an orchard tree on 
the crab stock. 
