New York Pippin
Ord’s Apple
Petit Jean
Pomeroy
Ponto Pippin
Russet Table Pearmain
Tulip
Vale Mascal Pearmain
Violette
Wadhurst Pippin
Whitmore Pippin
Woolman’s Long
D. Russet.
Being entirely, or to a great extent, covered with russet.
Betsey
Forman’s Crew
Golden Knob
Golden Pearmain
Golden Russet
Hubbard’s Pearmain
Hunt’s Duke of Gloucester
Martin Nonpareil
Morris’s Nonpareil Russet
Pinner Seedling
Rosemary Russet
Rushock Pearmain
Uellner’s Gold Reinette
THE APPLE.—ITS VARIETIES.
1. ACKLAM’S RUSSET.—Fors.
Identification.—Fors. Treat. 92. Lind. Guide, 85. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 733.
Synonyme.—Aclemy Russet, Gibs. Fr. Gard. 359.
Fruit, below the medium size, two inches and a quarter wide, and two inches high; round and somewhat flattened. Skin, pale yellow tinged with green, and covered with thin grey russet, particularly on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, small and closed, set in a smooth, round, and shallow basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a moderately deep cavity. Flesh, white with a greenish tinge, firm, crisp, juicy, and highly flavoured.
An excellent dessert apple of first-rate quality; ripe in November, and will keep under favourable circumstances till March.
The tree is very hardy, and an excellent bearer. It succeeds best in a dry soil, and is well adapted for espalier training.
This variety is supposed to have originated at the village of Acklam, in Yorkshire.
2. ADAMS’S PEARMAIN.—Lind.
Identification.—Lind. Guide, 60. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 529.
Synonyme.—Norfolk Pippin, Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1, 685.
Figure.—Pom. Mag. t. 133.
Fruit, large, varying from two inches and a half to three inches high and about the same in breadth at the widest part; pearmain-shaped, very even, and regularly formed. Skin, pale yellow tinged with green, and covered with delicate russet on the shaded side; but deep yellow tinged with red, and delicately streaked with livelier red on the side next the sun. Eye, small and open, with acute erect segments, set in a narrow, round, and plaited basin. Stalk, varying from half an inch to an inch long, obliquely inserted in a shallow cavity, and generally with a fleshy protuberance on one side of it. Flesh, yellowish, crisp, juicy, rich, and sugary, with an agreeable and pleasantly perfumed flavor.
A dessert apple of first-rate quality; in use from December to February. It is a large and very handsome variety, and worthy of general cultivation.
The tree is a free and healthy grower, producing long slender shoots, by which, and its cucullated ovate leaves, it is easily distinguished. It is an excellent bearer even in a young state, particularly on the paradise or doucin stock, and succeeds well as an espalier.
3. ALFRISTON.—Hort.
Identification.—Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 8. Lind. Guide, 26. Down. Fr. Amer. 97.
Synonymes.—Lord Gwydyr’s Newtown Pippin, Acc. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. Oldaker’s New, Ibid. Shepherd’s Pippin, in Sussex. Shepherd’s Seedling, Ibid.
Figure.—Ron. Pyr. Mal. pl. xxxv. f. 1.
Fruit, of the largest size, generally about three inches and a half wide, and from two and three quarters to three inches high; roundish, and angular on the sides. Skin, greenish yellow on the shaded side, and tinged with orange next the sun, covered all over with veins, or reticulations of russet. Eye, open, set in a deep and uneven basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a deep cavity. Flesh, yellowish white, crisp, juicy, sugary, and briskly flavoured.
This is one of the largest and best culinary apples. It comes into use in the beginning of November and continues till April.
The tree is a strong and vigorous grower, very hardy, and an abundant bearer.
This variety is supposed to have been raised by a person of the name of Shepherd, at Uckfield, in Sussex, and has for many years been extensively cultivated in that county, under the names of Shepherd’s Seedling, and Shepherd’s Pippin, two names by which it is there most generally known. Some years ago a Mr. Brooker, of Alfriston, near Hailsham, in Sussex, sent specimens of the fruit to the London Horticultural Society, by whom, being unknown, it was called the Alfriston, a name by which it is now generally known, except in its native county. By some it is erroneously called the Baltimore and Newtown Pippin.
4. AMERICAN FALL PIPIN.—H.