Darling Pippin

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 flavour.

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."

David T. Fish. See Warner's King.

Deans' Codlin

Fruit, very large, three inches and a quarter wide, and three inches and three-quarters high; conical or oblong, with prominent ribs on the sides, which extend to the apex, and form corresponding ridges round the eye. Skin, clear, deep yellow, dotted with large russet dots. Eye, closed, with somewhat erect segments, set in a deep and furrowed basin. Stamens, median, inclining to marginal; tube, deep, funnel-shaped. Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, rather slender for the size of the fruit, inserted in a deep cavity. Flesh, yellowish, tender, and pleasantly flavoured. Cells, wide open, Codlin-like, elliptical; abaxile.

A first-rate kitchen apple; in use from November till February. This was introduced by Mr. \V. Deans, a nurseryman at Jedburgh, N.B.

Delaware. See Trumpington.

De Neige (Fameuse; La Fameuse)

Fruit, about the medium size, two inches and a half broad, and two inches high; roundish, sometimes oblate. Skin, tender, smooth, and shining, of a beautiful pale waxen yellow colour, tinged with pale red, on the shaded side, but covered with deeper red on the side next the sun. Eye, small, half-open, with short segments, reflexed at the tips, and set in a narrow, shallow, and puckered basin. Stamens, marginal; tube, deep, conical. Stalk, half an inch long, inserted in a round and pretty deep cavity. Flesh, pure white, remarkably tender and delicate, sweet, and pleasantly flavoured. Cells, obovate; axile.

A very beautiful and handsome apple, but not of great merit. It is suitable for dessert use, and is in perfection from November to January.

The tree is of a small habit of growth, hardy, and bears well; but in some soils it is liable to canker.

This variety is supposed to be of Canadian origin, and was introduced to this country by a Mr. Barclay, of Brompton, near London. It is grown very extensively in Canada, and is very highly appreciated. The name of Pomme de Neige has been applied to several very distinct varieties, and it can be traced back as far as the beginning of the seventeenth century; but the variety to which it was then applied, and which appears to have been a sort of early White Codlin, has long since disappeared, and any attempt to identify it must be mere conjecture.

Deux Ans of Kent. See Graham.