3-074-624 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches at the Apple Congress at Chiswick, 1883. '"Lemon Pippins", "Irish Giant", Pomeroy; "Hanwell Souring", "Ashmead's Deserts [sic]"; "Ducksbill"; "London Pippin" (?), Harrison's "Annie Elizabeth"; Golden Spire; Visitors are requested not to touch the fruit; "Cats head"; One Reason - Another; "Lord Derby" - "Siberian" & "American Crabs"; "Eh thut's Lord Derby - 'Xactly"; "Lady's Finger"; "Black Jack"; "The Apple of his Eye"; "Will the committee name this specimen?"; Pointers at the Apple Show...The Fruit Committee of the Horticultural Society have been preparing reports as to the nomenclature and classification of the different varieties...the most popular of all apples is the Blenheim Pippin...With a thousand varieties to choose from, a planter may for a moment be perplexed, but it is a great gain to practical pomology to discover that the congress has reduced the list of the very best varieties to the modest number of twenty-four. Our Artist, however, in his playful treatment of the exhibition from a jocular point of view, has chosen for delineation some of the minor features and incidents of the Apple Congress, which may be amusing to the general reader'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.