"Gennitings" are early apples (_quasi June-eatings_, as "gilliflowers,"
said to be corrupted from July flowers). For the derivation suggested to
me while I write, I cannot answer; but for the fact I can, having, while
at school in Needham Market, Suffolk, plucked and eaten many a "striped
genniting," while "codlins" were on a tree close by. And many a time have
I been rallied as a Cockney for saying I had gathered "enough" instead of
"enow," which one of your Suffolk correspondents has justly recorded as
the county expression applied to number as distinguished from quantity.