PLATE LXIX. 
8. PITMASTON PINE APPLE. 
A seedling raised by Mr. Williams, of Pitmaston, near Worcester (c. 1825). 
Description .—Fruit : small and conical, regularly formed but frequently more enlarged on 
one side than the other. Skin : rough to the touch, being almost entirely covered with a coat of 
pale yellowish brown russet, but here and there with a smooth patch of the ground colour, which is 
yellowish. Eye : small and closed, set in a shallow saucer-like plaited basin. Stalk : slender, 
inserted in a wide and rather deep cavity. Flesh : yellowish, firm, crisp and juicy ; rich, and with 
a distinct pine-apple flavour. 
A dessert apple of great excellence, in season during December and January. 
The tree is small in growth, with slender wood like that of the Golden Pippin. It is hardy 
and bears well. 
