The Margaret apple is also called Magdalene apple ; it is an early fruit, of good flavour, but does not keep long. The ti ec is of Middling size ; commonly productive.
or Geniton, as Dr Johnson has it, is generally supposed to he a corruption of June-eating. It is a small fruit, hut very early ; certainly however not in June, nor earlier than August. It is perhaps inferior to the Os lin, Margaret, and one or two other early apples; but no one possessed of a healthy jenneting tree in full bearing would willingly part with it.
The .Vonsuch is a well known pippin ; the tree is rather subject to the canker, but it generally bears more or less every season.
The Margil is a very good late apple, fit for the dessert in January ; the fruit is much improved when the tree is trained against a wall.
The Quince apple is a small fruit, shaped like the quince; the side next the sun of a russet colour, the other side yel lowish ; it is an excellent apple for about three weeks in September, but does not keep much longer. The tree is of low growth.
The Aromatic pippin receives its name from its fine fla vour; the side next the sun is of a bright russet colour. It ripens in October, and is fit for use from December to February.
The Royal russet, or leathercoat russet, is so named from the deep russet colour of the skin ; it is a large fruit, of an oblong figure, broad towards the base : it is au excel lent kitchen fruit, and may also appear in the dessert ; it keeps till April. The tree grows to a large size, and bears very freely.
The different varieties of Codlins arc chiefly baking ap ples, although they may also occasionally be taken to the table : they are early ; but none of them are good keeping apples. The trees are great bearers, and make commo dious half and dwarf standards in gardens ; the latter are frequently trained around hoops to support their branches. An account of the valuable properties of the Carlisle and Keswick codlins is given by the Right Hon. Sir John Sin clair, in the first volume of the Scottish Horticultural Me moirs. The codlins are frequently propagated by slips, suckers, or layers, trees thus procured yielding fruit much more quickly than grafted trees.
The Newton pippin and Spitsenberg apple are two Ame rican sorts, which have of late years become favourites in some parts of this country. The former was introduced from Long Island, New York : it is a beautiful and excel lent apple ; it ripens best on a wall, but in favourable sea sons it succeeds on espalier rails, or even on dwarf stan dards. The Spitsenberg is also a very good fruit, with somewhat of the pine-apple flavour ; the tree requires a sheltered situation and a good soil : it is observed to thrive better on a west than on a south wall.
The Grey rennet, Reinette grise, is a middle-sized fruit, of a deep grey next the sun, but on the other side inter mixed with yellow ; a juicy apple, of a quick flavour, yet sugary : it ripens in October, but does not keep long. The Golden rennet, Reinette doree, is a very good apple, ripen ing in the end of September, fit either for the table or the kitchen, and keeping till February. The Canadian rennet is called by the French horticulturists Reinette de Trianon: it is a large fruit, of a yellow colour, with a tinge of red : it keeps till February.
The Violet apple, Pomme violette, is a middling large fruit, of a long shape ; pale green on one side, but deep red next the sun; flesh delicate, juice sugary, with a slight flavour of the sweet or-March violet. The tree grows vi gorously, and the fruit ripens in the end of October.
The Eve apple is originally from Ireland, but now very generally cultivated in the west of Scotland. The tree is nearly as ample a bearer as the Keswick codling ; and it is peculiarly well calculated for forming small standards, to be trained either hollow, or like a cylinder or a cone, the tree growing close and compact, and the fruit spurs being regularly distributed along every part of the branches. The apple is of a fine colour, and well tasted, fit either for table or kitchen use. It keeps nearly four months. The tree produces fruit the second year after being grafted ; and, like the burknot, it may be propagated by cuttings or by layers.