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TH E SUGAR-LOAF P IP P IN .
Sugar-Loaf Pippin. Hort. Soc. Cat. o f Fruits, p . 148, No.
1078.
Dolgoi Squoznoi. Ibid, p . 116, No. 254.
An excellent summer apple, ripe about the
beginning of August, among th e earliest of th e
varieties. I t appears to be of Russian origin, having
been sent to the Horticultural Society by Mr. Martin
Miller Call, of the Taurida Garden, under the
name of Dolgoi S q u o zn o i,—two Russian words
signifying, dolgoi, long, and squoznoi, transparent.
I t was also received a t the Chiswick Garden
from Mr. Dymond, nurseryman, of Exeter, with the
name here adopted. At th e period of the year
when this matures, there is scarcely any apple
which possesses the same good qualities. But
after having been gathered a week or ten days, the
flesh becomes soft and mealy.
In form and colour it is very like the Siebenschläfer
Apple of Christ, b u t th a t variety does not
ripen till November: it is also closely allied to a
variety sold by Mr. Dymond, of Exeter, under the
name of Hutchins’s Early Seedling — if it be not the
very same.