A valuable German dessert apple, ripe in December, and continues in use during the spring.--_Diel Kernobst._ i. B. 59. 555. GARGEY PIPPIN. This is a handsome conical-shaped apple, under the middle size, of a greenish-yellow color, with a little red towards the sun. This is a pretty good apple, and keeps till May.--_Fors. Treat._ 103. 556. GENERAL WOLFE. A large apple resembling the Reinette de Canada. It is of a flattened conical shape; yellowish-green and brown color; of second-rate quality, as a kitchen or dessert fruit; and is in use from November till January. _H. S. C._ n. 263. 557. GESTREIFTER SOMMER ZIMMETAPFEL. SYNONYME.--La Canelle. Fruit, small, two inches and a quarter wide, and two inches high; roundish, inclining to oblong. Skin, very thin and shining, covered with bloom when on the tree, straw-white at first, but changes when ripe to lemon-yellow, and on the side next the sun, it is covered with short, broken, crimson stripes. Eye, closed, with long woolly segments, and set in a shallow basin. Stalk, an inch to an inch and a quarter long, sometimes fleshy, inserted in a narrow and deep cavity, with occasionally a fleshy swelling on one side of it. Flesh, yellowish-white, fine, juicy, marrowy, and very aromatic, with a sugary flavor, mixed with cinnamon. A very excellent little German dessert apple, of first-rate quality; it is ripe during August and September. The tree is a good grower, and an excellent bearer.--_Diel Kernobst._ vi. 43. 558. GILLIFLOWER. A medium sized culinary apple, of second-rate quality, roundish shape, and striped with red; it is in use from October till February.--_H. S. C._ n. 266. 559. GILLIFLOWER PEARMAIN. A medium sized dessert apple, of second-rate quality, pearmain shape, yellow and red color; and in use from November till March.--_H. S. C._ p. 30. 560. GILPIN. SYNONYME--Carthouse. A handsome cider fruit from Virginia, which is also a very good table fruit from February till May. A very hardy, vigorous, and fruitful tree. Fruit, of medium size, roundish-oblong. Skin very smooth and handsome, richly streaked with deep red and yellow. Stalk, short, deeply inserted. Calyx, in a round, rather deep basin. Flesh, yellow, firm, juicy and rich, becoming tender and sprightly in the spring.--_Down. Fr. Amer._ 144. 561. GLANZ REINETTE. SYNONYME.--Tyroler Glanzreinette.