This is a small dessert fruit, of second-rate quality, resembling the Golden Harvey. It is of an oblate shape, yellow color; the flesh is yellow, crisp, juicy, and very highly flavored; in use from December till February.--_Hort. Trans._ iv. 524. 684. MOORHEN PIPPIN. A dessert apple, in high estimation in Hampshire. It is of middle size, pea-green color, varigated with scarlet blotching, and some russet; firm in substance, and rich in flavor, keeps well till April. A great bearer, and grows well.--_Ron. Pyr. Mal._ 64, pl. xxxii. f. 7. 685. MONSTROUS LEADINGTON. SYNONYME.--Green Codlin. This is a very large fruit, and of first-rate quality for kitchen use, its shape is oblong, and the color green; it is in use from October till January. The tree is a good bearer, healthy, and rather large; fruit keeps well.--_H. S. C._ n. 403. 686. MONSTROUS RENNET. This is a very large apple, of an oblong shape, turning red towards the sun, and of a dark green on the other side. It is generally preserved on account of its magnitude, as the flesh is apt to be meally. It ripens in October.--_Fors. Treat._ 115. 687. MORDEN BLOOM. A medium sized kitchen apple of inferior quality, it is of an oblate shape, yellow and red color, and ripens during August and September.--_H. S. C._ p. 25. 688. MORDEN ROUND. A small dessert apple of third-rate quality, it is round and handsome, of a yellow color, and russeted, keeps from December till March.--_H. S. C._ n. 445. 689. MORDEN STRIPED. A medium sized kitchen apple, of second-rate quality, it is of a roundish shape, striped with red, and in use from November till January.--_H. S. C._ n. 446. 690. MOSS’S INCOMPARABLE. A large apple of first-rate quality, either as a dessert or culinary fruit. It is a very late keeper, being in use from April till June.--_Riv. Cat._ 691. MOTHER APPLE. A small cider apple of ovate shape, yellow color, and in use in December. A bitter sweet.--_H. S. C._ n. 448. 692. MOTHER RENNET. This is rather under the middle size, of a greenish color, with a little blush towards the sun, the eye is large and deep, and the footstalk is small.--_Fors. Treat._ 115. 693. MOUNT STEWART. A large kitchen apple, of oblate shape, green on one side, and red on the other, and in use from November till January.--_H. S. C._ p. 26. 694. MOULIN À VENT. A medium sized cider apple, of ovate shape, yellow color, and in use during December.--_H. S. C._ n. 449. 695. MOUSE APPLE. An American variety which originated in Ulster county, on the west bank of the Hudson. It is there one of the most popular winter fruits, being considered by some superior to the Rhode Island Greening, and it deserves extensive trial elsewhere.