A NEW APPLE.
An apple, most carefully packed; and seductive to see and to smell, reaches me from a remote country rectory, with a claim that it is new to history. The only theory of its creation is that it was an accidental cross between a Cox's Orange Pippin and a crab apple, the two trees that are its supporters. I am asked to test its claims. Here is the rub. It happens to resemble very closely the best apple in My garden, which cost me three years of inquiry before it was identified. Three specialists called it a Cox (which I knew it was not) ; others were doubtful, but at last the suggestion that it was a Coronation found general favour. Now what chance is there that the experts can give an authoritative answer to the query ; " Is this a new apple or is it not ? " when they differed about the identity of an established variety ? The apple in question is just different from a Coronation, though marvellously like it in its orange streakiness. My advice to the grower is boldly to enter his " Peake's Pippin " at a show as a novelty. It will either win a prize or be labelled as a
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