PLATE LXIX. 
i. RED INGESTRIE. 
This excellent apple, with its companion the Yellow Ingestrie , was raised by Mr. Thomas 
Andrew Knight, from the seed of the Orange Pippin , impregnated with the Golden Pippin , about the 
year 1800. The two pips were taken from the same cell of the core. Mr. Knight named them 
“Ingestrie” from the residence of his friend Lord Ingestrie. The original trees are still in 
existence at Wormsley Grange, Herefordshire. It was brought to the notice of the London 
Horticultural Society, in 18 r 1. 
Description. —Fruit: small, two inches and a half wide, and two inches and a quarter high ; 
ovate, regularly and handsomely shaped. Skin : clear bright yellow, tinged and mottled with red 
on the side exposed to the sun, and strewed with numerous pearly specks. Eye : small, set in a 
wide and even basin. Stalk : short and slender, inserted in a small and shallow cavity. Flesh : 
yellowish, firm, juicy, and highly flavoured. 
A dessert apple, attractive in appearance, and excellent in quality. It is very similar in 
colour to a well-matured Golden Winter Permain. It is in season during October and November. 
The tree is hardy and bears well. It makes an excellent bush very suitable to small 
gardens. 
