. British pomology; or, The history, description, classification, and synonymes, of the fruits and fruit trees of Great Britain ... Apples. 1G0 BRITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. greenish-white, crisp, tender, juicy, sugary, with a brisk and rich flavor. A dessert apple, of good, though not of first-rate quality ; it is in use from November to February. 277. POPE'S APPLE.—H. Fruit, large ; ovate, handsomely and regularly formed. Skin, clear yellow, tinged with greenish patches, and strewed with dark dots ; on the side next the sun it is marked with a few faint streaks of crimson. Eye, large and open, like
. British pomology; or, The history, description, classification, and synonymes, of the fruits and fruit trees of Great Britain ... Apples. 1G0 BRITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. greenish-white, crisp, tender, juicy, sugary, with a brisk and rich flavor. A dessert apple, of good, though not of first-rate quality ; it is in use from November to February. 277. POPE'S APPLE.—H. Fruit, large ; ovate, handsomely and regularly formed. Skin, clear yellow, tinged with greenish patches, and strewed with dark dots ; on the side next the sun it is marked with a few faint streaks of crimson. Eye, large and open, like that of the Blenheim Pippin, and set in a wide and. plaited basin. Stalk, short, deeply inserted in a round cavity, which is. lined with rough russet, and with an incipient protuberance on one side of it. Flesh, yellowish, tender, crisp, sugary and juicy, with a rich and excellent flavor. A very valuable apple either for the dessert or culinary purposes ; it is in use from November to March. This variety has all the properties of the Blenheim Pippin, and is much superior to it, keeps longer, and has the great advantage of being an early and abundant bearer. This excellent apple is as yet but little known. I met with it in the neighbourhood of Sittingbourne, in Kent, where it is greatly esteemed and now extensively cultivated for the supply of the London markets. The account I received of it was, that the original tree grew in the gar- den of a cottager of the name of Pope, at Cellar Hill, in the parish of Linstead, near Sittingbourne. It was highly prized by its owner, to whom the crop afforded a little income, and many were the unsuccessful appli- cations of his neighbours for grafts of what became generally known as Pope's Apple. The proprietor of this cottage built a row of other dwell-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfe
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