An excellent early dessert apple of the first quality; ripe in the middle of August, and continues in use till the end of September.
The tree is hardy, a free grower, and an excellent bearer.
This variety is of Russian origin.
100. DUKE OF BEAUFORT’S PIPPIN.—Hort.
- Identification.—[Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, p. 14. [Lind. Guide], 28.
Fruit, medium sized; conical, and angular on the sides. Skin, green, strewed with freckles of russet; and streaked with red on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, set in a deep and angular basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a deep cavity. Flesh, greenish-white, crisp, and tender, very juicy, and sub-acid.
A culinary apple of second-rate quality; in use from October to Christmas.
101. DUMELOW’S SEEDLING.—Hort.
- Identification.—[Hort. Trans.] vol. iv. 529. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 224. [Lind. Guide], 44.
- Synonymes.—Dumelow’s Crab, acc. [Hort. Trans.] Duke of Wellington, [Ron. Pyr. Mal.] 37. Normanton Wonder, acc. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] Winter Hawthornden, acc. [Riv. Cat.] Wellington’s, [Diel Kernobst.] v. B. 55. Wellington’s Reinette, Ibid.
- Figure.—[Ron. Pyr. Mal.] pl. xix. pl. 1.
