British Pomology: Or, the History, Description, Classification, and Synonymes, of the Fruits and Fruit Trees of Great BritainHogg, Robert
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British Pomology: Or, the History, Description, Classification, and Synonymes, of the Fruits and Fruit Trees of Great Britain
Hogg, Robert
Apples
Fruit, large; roundish, and somewhat flattened, with prominent ribs on
the sides, which extend to the basin of the eye. Skin, deep yellow,
strewed with russety dots, and with a blush of red which sometimes
assumes a lilac hue near the stalk. Eye, large and open, set in a
deep and angular basin. Stalk, rather short, inserted in a deep,
wide, irregular, and angular cavity. Flesh, yellowish, briskly, and
pleasantly flavored.
A good culinary apple of second-rate quality, in use from October to
December.
This is a very old English variety, being mentioned by Rea, in 1665,
and of which, he says, “it is beautiful to the eye, and pleasant to the
palat.”
46. BRINGEWOOD PIPPIN.--Hort.
IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 88. Lind. Guide, 40. Rog.
Fr. Cult. 88.
Fruit, small, two inches and a half wide, and an inch and three
quarters high; almost round, a good deal like a flattened Golden
Pippin. Skin, of a fine rich yellow color, covered with greyish dots,
russety round the eye, and marked with a few russety dots on the side
next the sun. Eye, small and open, with reflexed segments, and placed
in a shallow basin. Stalk, short and slender, inserted in a moderately
deep cavity, which is lined with greenish grey russet. Flesh,
yellowish, firm, crisp, and sugary, with a rich and perfumed flavor.
An excellent, though not a first-rate dessert apple, in use from
January to March. Its only fault is the flesh being too dry.
The tree is hardy, but a weak and slender grower, and never attains a
great size. It succeeds well on the paradise stock.
This is one of the varieties raised by Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq., of
Downton Castle, Herefordshire, and which he obtained by impregnating
the Golden Pippin, with the pollen of the Golden Harvey.
47. BRISTOL PEARMAIN.--H.
Fruit, small, about two inches and a quarter wide, and the same in
height; oblong, slightly angular on the side, and ridged round the eye.
Skin, dull yellowish green, with a few pale stripes of crimson, and
considerably covered with patches and dots of thin grey russet on the
shaded side; but marked with thin dull red, striped with deeper and
brighter red, on the side exposed to the sun, and covered with numerous
dark russety dots. Eye, small and closed, with erect, acute segments,
set in a deep, round, and plaited basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a
shallow cavity, which is lined with thin brown russet, strewed with
silvery scales. Flesh, yellow, firm, not very juicy, but briskly
flavored.
An apple of little merit, in use from October to February.
The only place where I have ever met with this variety, is in the
neighbourhood of Odiham, in Hampshire.
48. BROAD-END.--Hort.
IDENTIFICATION.--Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 89.
SYNONYMES.--Winter Broading, _Hort. Trans._ vol. iv., p. 66. _Lind.
Guide_, 57. Kentish Broading, _Ron. Pyr. Mal._ 47. Broading, _Acc.
Hort. Soc. Cat._
FIGURE.--Ron. Pyr. Mal. pl. xxiv. f. 1.
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