PADLEY’S P IP P IN .
Padlev’s Pippin. Hort. Trans, vol. Hi. p. 69. Fruit Cat.
no. 720.
This excellent rich dessert Apple was obtained
by the late Mr. Padley, of the Royal Gardens,
at Hampton Court. It is noticed in the first
volume of the Horticultural Transactions, as having
been exhibited in 1806, and was then reckoned
one of the very best of our new Apples in point
of fiavour, a character which it still maintains.
The trees are good bearers, and the fruit is in perfection
during the months of December and January.
It is, however, one of those sorts which are apt
to shrivel, and therefore requires to be kept closely
stored up from the air.
S hoots rather slender, upright, chestnut red,
partially covered with a grayish epidermis and
pubescence. Leaves small, ovate, acuminate, a
little folded, unequally and acutely serrated. P e tioles
slender, like those of the Nonpareil. S tipules
small.
F lowers small. P etals ovate, not imbricated,
nearly fiat.
F ruit of medium size for a dessert Apple,
roundish. E y e shallow, nearly close. S talk
slender, generally about an inch in length, but
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