THE COURT OF WICK PIPPIN.

Court of Wick. Hooker's Pomona Londinensis, t. 32. Forsyth's Treatise, ed. 7. p. 98. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 219. Wood's Huntingdon ... } Golden Drop ......... } Knightwick Pippin .... } of various Nurseries. Fry's Pippin ......... } Phillips's Reinette ..... }

A Somersetshire Apple of the highest merit. It was originally raised in a village in that county, from the seed of the Golden Pippin, to which it is little inferior either as a cider or table fruit. The tree is very healthy and vigorous, and a great bearer.

Ripens in the middle of October, is in perfection in January, and will keep, with good management, till the middle of March.

Like most other fruits of much excellence, it has received a number of different names, which are enumerated above.

The WOOD is weak, grayish brown, with a thin coating of slate-coloured epidermis, very slightly pubescent.

LEAVES flattish, ovate, obtuse, regularly serrated, with a downy petiole and underside. STIPULES as long as the petiole.

FLOWERS open in the beginning of May, middle-sized, pale red, tinged with yellow. PETALS oblong, slightly imbricated at the base; not concave, as in many varieties.

FRUIT below the middle size, about twice as large as a Golden Pippin, ovate, flat at either end, with no trace of angles or of plaits at the eye. EYE large, open, in a shallow depression. SKIN greenish yellow in the shade; bright orange, with small russet-brown spots, when exposed; sometimes slightly tinged with red next the sun. FLESH whitish yellow mixed with green, when first gathered; becoming deep yellow, crisp, tender, juicy, and high-flavoured, when fully ripe.

The accompanying drawing was made in Mr. Kirke's Nursery, in October last.

— John Lindley, Pomologia Britannica, Vol. 1 (1841)