VI. 
THE LOAN PEARMAIN. 
The Loan Pearmain is not, I believe, found in any Cata¬ 
logue of Apples of the 17th century; and if it existed even 
in the latter part of that period, it was probably as a single 
seedling tree; for the state of the variety does not now in¬ 
dicate any marks of old age, and orchards of it might still 
be raised ] though they would probably be of short duration. 
As a Cider Apple the Loan Pearmain possesses much merit, 
and contains a considerable portion of saccharine matter 
combined with a good deal of astringency; but the trees are 
very subject to become much encumbered with a multiplicity 
of slender shoots, and are by no means good bearers. The 
specific gravity of the expressed juice is about 1072. 
WoRLiDGE, who wrote in I 678 has called the Marygold 
Apple “ Joanes Pearmain,^' and the anonymous author of 
the “ Complete Planter and Cyderist,” printed in 1685, has 
called the same Apple “ Lones Pearmain,” whence the 
name of the Loan Pearmain, is, not improbably, derived. 
The Loans Pearmain, of the nurseries about London, is a 
different variety. 
