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THE WHITE SPANISH REINETTE.
Reinette Blanche d ’Espagne. Mayer’s Pomona, vol. iii. ;
and o f other Continental Writers. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat.
no. 864.
Reinette d’Espagne
D ’Espagne..............
De Ratteau . . . . . .
Concombre ancien.
Fall Pippin . . . . . . .
Cobbett’s Fall . . . .
Large F a ll..............
o f various Foreign Gardens.
o f the English and Americans.
This extremely valuable variety is little known
in this country, but is in high estimation abroad.
It is said to be the national Apple of Spain, where
it is called Camuesar, and where it has been known
from the highest antiquity. In America it appears to
be called the Fall Pippin,— a name, however, which
is applied to more sorts than one. In this country
it is known both by the name of the Fall Pippin,
by which it has been sold by Mr. Cobbett, and
also by the erroneous appellation of the Newtown
Pippin, and is, in fact, a very close approach to
that rare and highly-prized variety.
In quality it stands in the first class ; its firm,
rich, high-flavoured flesh, its beauty, and its capability
of keeping, being scarcely exceeded. Its
principal defect is its gigantic siz e ; specimens have
been ripened equal to the coarsest and largest
kitchen Apples in cultivation. At the period of
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