Plate XIV. 
4. LAMB ABBEY PEARMAIN. 
This variety is a seedling from the Newtown Pippin , the celebrated American apple. It was 
grown in 1804 by Mrs. Malcolm, the wife of Niel Malcolm, Esq., of Lamb Abbey, near Dartford, 
in Kent. It is figured in the Transactions of the London Horticultural Society , vol. viii, p. 267, and 
also in Ronalds’ Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis , plate xxi, fig. 2. 
Description. —Fruit, small, roundish, or oblate oblong, regularly and handsomely shaped. 
Skin, smooth, greenish yellow on the shaded side, but becoming clear yellow when at maturity ; on 
the side next the sun it is dull orange, streaked and striped with red, which becomes more faint as it 
extends to the shaded side, and dotted all over with minute, punctured, russety dots. Eye, rather 
large and open, with long broad segments reflexed at the tips, and set in a wide, deep, and plaited 
basin. Stalk, from a quarter to half an inch long, slender, deeply inserted in a russety cavity. 
Flesh, yellowish white, firm, crisp, very juicy and sugary, with a brisk and rich vinous flavour. 
A very valuable dessert apple, of first-rate quality, both as regards the richness of the flavour, 
and the long period during which it remains in perfection. It is in season from Christmas to April. 
The tree is healthy, a free grower, and bears well. 
