THE COCKLE P IP P IN .
Cockle Pippin. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 169.
Nutmeg Cockle .
Nutmeg Pippin . . ^ of various Collections.
White Cockle. . . .
A Sussex variety, much valued in the London
markets for the lateness to which it will keep sound
in the Spring, as well as for its good qualities
otherwise.
A pretty good bearer as a standard, but rather
apt to canker. Hence it succeeds better upon a
Paradise stock, in a sheltered place. It ripens in
December.
Sometimes the fruit is perfectly smooth, occasionally
it becomes russety ; and hence the idea has
arisen that there are two Cockle Pippins, the one
called the White, the other the Nutmeg. But all
Gardeners know how apt smooth fruit is to become
russety under particular circumstances,— and the
contrary.
S hoots moderately strong, chestnut - coloured
next the sun, the shaded side having a tinge of
green; the whole sprinkled with roundish white
spots.
L eaves somewhat like those of a Nonpareil,
oval, inclining to ovate, acuminate, serrated. P e tioles
slender, longish, erect. S tipules linear,
lanceolate.