The provincial name for this apple is still “_Kempster’s Pippin_,” a lasting monumental tribute, and inscription, to him who first planted the kernel from whence it sprang.” 36. BOROVITSKY.--Hort. IDENTIFICATION.--Hort Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 74. Lind Guide, 3. Down. Fr. Amer. 70. FIGURE.--Pom. Mag. t. 10. Fruit, medium sized, two inches high, and about the same in width; roundish and slightly angular. Skin, pale green strewed with silvery russet scales on the shaded side; and colored with bright red, which is striped with deeper red on the side next the sun. Eye, set in a wide and plaited basin. Stalk, an inch long, deeply inserted in a rather wide cavity. Flesh, white, firm, brisk, juicy, and sugary. An excellent early dessert apple, ripe in the middle of August. This was sent from the Taurida Gardens, near St. Petersburg, to the London Horticultural Society in 1824. 37. BORSDORFFER.--Knoop. IDENTIFICATION--Knoop. Pom. t. x. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 73. Down. Fr Amer. 99. SYNONYMES.--Porstorffer, _Cord. Hist._ Reinette Batarde, _Riv. et Moul. Meth._ 192. Borstorf, _Knoop. Pom._ 56. Borstorff Hative, _Ibid._ 129. Borstorff à long queue, _Ibid._ 129. Bursdoff, or Queen’s Apple, _Fors. Treat._ ed. 3, 15, Red Borsdorffer, _Willich Dom. Encyc._ Borsdorff, _Lind. Guide_, 39. Postophe d’Hiver, _Bon Jard._ 1843. p. 512. Pomme de prochain, _Acc. Diel. Kernobst._ Reinette d’Allemagne, _Ibid._ Blanche de Leipsic, _Acc. Knoop. Pom._ Reinette de Misnie, _Acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ Grand Bohemian Borsdorffer, _Ibid._ Edler Winterborstorffer, _Diel. Kernobst._ II. 80. Edel Winterborsdorfer, _Ditt. Handb._ I. 372. Witte Leipziger, _Acc. Knoop. Pom._ Maschanzker, _Acc. Diel Kernobst._ Weiner Maschanzkerl, _Baum. Cat._ 1850. Winter Borsdorffer, _Acc. Hort. Soc. Cat._ Garret Pippin, _Ibid._ King, _Ibid._ King George, _Ibid._ King George the Third, _Ron. Pyr. Mal._ 26. FIGURES.--Knoop. Pom. t. x. Ron. Pyr. Mal. pl. xiii. f. 8. [Illustration] Fruit, below medium size; roundish oblate, rather narrower at the apex than the base, handsomely and regularly formed, without ribs or other inequalities. Skin, shining, pale waxen yellow in the shade, and bright deep red next the sun; it is strewed with dots, which are yellowish on the sunny side, and brownish in the shade, and marked with veins and slight traces of delicate, yellowish-grey russet. Eye, large and open, with long reflexed segments, placed in a rather deep, round, and pretty even basin. Stalk, short and slender, inserted in a narrow, even, and shallow cavity, which is lined with thin russet. Flesh, white with a yellowish tinge, crisp and delicate, brisk, juicy, and sugary, and with a rich, vinous, and aromatic flavor. A dessert apple of the first quality, in use from November to January.