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XIV. 
THE FOXLEY APPLE. 
This singular little apple sprang from a seed of the yellow 
Siberian Crab, and the Pollen of the Orange Pippin*; and 
it affords a remarkable combination of the apparently dis¬ 
cordant qualities of its male and female parents. Its wood, 
its leaves, and blossoms, are those of a Crabtree, and are, to 
an extraordinary extent, patient of cold and unfavourable 
weather; whilst the fruit rivals the Golden Pippin in 
sweetness. 
The native Crab of our woods was first transmuted into a 
rich apple by culture through successive generations; and 
during its progressive changes it became habituated to cul¬ 
ture, and, like every other plant under similar circumstances, 
grew more and more dependent upon the care of man, as 
it became better adapted to his service. A rich apple, 
therefore, when thus generated, requires a continuation of 
that culture from which it first derived its existence, and is 
rarely, or never, well calculated for poor soils, or unfavour¬ 
able situations. But when a variety, as in the present in¬ 
stance, is the offspring of parents of totally dissimilar cha- 
'acters; when one parent has received all the improvements 
See Plate the 8th. 
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