“———— Why should we sing the Thrift,

Codling or Pomroy, or of pimpled coat

The Russet, or the Cat’s-Head’s weighty orb,

Enormous in its growth, for various use

Tho’ these are meet, tho’ after full repast,

Are oft requir’d, and crown the rich dessert.”

In Ellis’s “Modern Husbandman,” he says the Catshead is, “a very useful apple to the farmer, because one of them pared and wrapped up in dough, serves with little trouble for making an apple-dumpling, so much in request with the Kentish farmer, for being part of a ready meal, that in the cheapest manner satiates the keen appetite of the hungry plowman, both at home and in the field, and, therefore, has now got into such reputation in Hertfordshire, and some other counties, that it is become the most common food with a piece of bacon or pickle-pork for families.”

65. CELLINI.—Hort.