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No 156

Pearsons Pippin (English table)
(Forsyth pa. [41] No 40)

Pearsons Pippin is a small apple about the size of a large
Golden Pippin. the 
form a little flat.  In Devonshire Mr Forsyth
says they bake them in an oven after Bread
putting a weight upon them; and bring
them to table as a sweetmeat, originally
from Nutwell near Exeter. ripen 
in the Fall. The skin is thick and of a bright
rough and russet yellow color. The growth of the
tree is upright, the branches delicate and the leaves
small.

[sketch of apple] 
        