SYNONYMES.--Five-Crowned Pippin, _Fors. Treat._ ed. 3. 99. Royal Somerset, _Hort. Soc. Cat._ ed. 1. 971. New London Pippin, _Ibid._ 562. FIGURE.--Ron. Pyr. Mal. pl. xiv. f. 2. Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three quarters broad, and two inches and a quarter high; roundish, and flattened, with a few ribs on the sides which increase in size towards the crown where they terminate in five prominent and equal ridges, from which circumstance it has been called the Five-Crowned Pippin. Skin, at first pale yellowish-green, changing to pale yellow or lemon color, with brownish-red on the side next the sun. Eye, small and closed, set in a rather shallow basin. Stalk, half an inch long, slender, and deeply inserted. Flesh, yellowish-white, firm, crisp, tender, and juicy, with a brisk and pleasant flavor. An excellent culinary apple, and serviceable also for the dessert; it is in use from November to April, when it is perfectly sound and shows no symptoms of shrivelling. The tree attains about the middle size, is not a strong grower, but quite hardy, and an excellent bearer. Although there is no record of this variety in the writings of any pomological author before Mr. Lindley, it is nevertheless a very old English apple. In an ancient note-book of an ancestor of Sir John Trevelyan, Bart., of Nettlecombe, in Somersetshire, so early as 1580, the “Lounden Peppen” is mentioned among the “names of Apelles which I had their graffes from Brentmarch, from one Mr. Pace.” From this we may learn, that we are not to take for granted the non-existence of any variety, simply because there is no notice of it, previous to the period when it may have been first recorded, in works on pomology. 212. LONG NOSE.--H. Fruit, rather below medium size, two inches and a half high, and about the same in width at the base; conical, with prominent angles on the sides. Skin, smooth and shining, grass green, changing to greenish yellow, with a cloud of bright red on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, closed, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, a quarter of an inch long, fleshy at the insertion, sometimes with a fleshy protuberance on one side of it, and inserted in a narrow, shallow, and russety cavity. Flesh, yellowish-white, crisp, and tender, with a slightly sweet but rather indifferent flavor. An apple of little merit, being of no value either for culinary purposes or the dessert; it is in season from October to December, and is met with in the Berkshire Orchards. 213. LONGSTART. H. SYNONYME.--Westmoreland Longstart.