ADAMS’S PEARMAIN.
Norfolk Pippin. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 685.
This very little known, but most superior fruit,
was received some years since by the Horticultural
Society, from Robert Adams, Esq. under the name
of the Norfolk Pippin. But as it is either not a
native of that county, or so little cultivated there
as by no means to warrant the application of the
original name, it has been called Adams’s Pippin.
Its merit consists in its being a very healthy,
hardy sort, a particularly free bearer, extremely
handsome, by no means subject to speck or deformity,
a good keeper, and one of those rich fruits
in which the proportions of sugar and acid are so
intimately blended as to form the most perfect
flavour of which the Apple is susceptible.
The fruit becomes fit for use in November, and
will keep till the end of the winter.
The following description has been made by
Mr. Thompson : —
S hoots moderately strong, chestnut-coloured,
thinly sprinkled with distinct whitish spots.
Leaves middle-sized, ovate, acuminate, doubly
and sharply serrated. P etioles about an inch in
length, somewhat erect, rather slender. Stipules
lanceolate, about half the length of the petiole.
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