A very good second-rate summer dessert apple; ripe in September.
This variety is very common in the Berkshire orchards.
90. DARLING PIPPIN.—Lind.
- Identification.—[Lind. Plan. Or.] 1796. [Lind. Guide], 68.
- Synonymes.—Darling, [Rea Pom.] 210. [Raii Hist.] ii. 1448.
Fruit, of medium size; oblato-conical. Skin, bright lemon yellow, thickly set with small embedded pearly specks. Eye, small, and placed in a shallow basin, surrounded with prominent plaits. Stalk, short and slender, not deeply inserted. Flesh, yellowish, firm, crisp, juicy, and sugary, with a pleasant sub-acid flavor.
A dessert apple of good quality; in use from November to January.
This is one of our old English varieties. It is mentioned by Rea, in 1665, who calls it “a large gold yellow apple, of an excellent, quick, something sharp taste, and bears well.” It is also noticed by Ray as “Pomum delicatulum Cestriæ.”
91. DEVONSHIRE BUCKLAND.—Hort.
- Identification.—[Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 97.
- Synonymes.—Dredge’s White Lily, [Fors. Treat.] 99. White Lily, acc. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3. Lily Buckland, Ibid.
Fruit, above medium size, three inches wide, and two inches and a half high; roundish and flattened, with irregular and prominent angles on the sides. Skin, dull waxen yellow, strewed all over with minute russety dots, which are larger on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, open, set in a plaited basin. Stalk, rather deeply inserted in a round cavity, from which issue ramifications of russet. Flesh, yellow, crisp, very juicy, brisk, sugary, and perfumed.