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The Newtown Pippin 



Sydney F. Brown in Country Gentleman, Feb. 1. 1916 



HOW many apple growers are ac- 

 quainted with the romantic history 

 of tlie Newtown Pippin? Tlie existence 

 of this variety alone was directly re- 

 sponsible for the establishment of our 

 great export trade to Groat Britain, a 

 business that has been developed within 

 the last bundled years by such tremen- 

 tlous strides that we now mention it in 

 terms of millions of barrels annualh . 



About two centuries ago a seedling 

 apple tree sprang up on the edge of a 

 swamp in the neighborhood of the vil- 

 lage of Newtown, Long Island. From 

 what variety of apple that seed came 

 we cannot tell. This seedling was 

 allowed to grow, unmolested, ignored, 

 as such trees are, until one da>' a 

 stranger passing by saw and tasted 

 some of the fruit from this tree. He 

 found the flavor better than anything 

 be bad ever tasted. 



After this discovery the fame of the 

 new a|)]jle spread, and scions were 

 taken from the parent tree to found new 

 orchards up and down the coast. The 

 great Hudson River Valley orchards 

 were the children of this tree. 



So much of the origin of the New- 

 town. Next comes its introduction into 

 England. 



In 1751? a box of Newtown Pippins 

 was sent to Rcnjamin Franklin, our 

 representative in England. He gave 

 some to his friend, the distinguished 

 English botanist and natural ijhiloso- 

 pher, Peter Collinson, who then brought 

 scions into England. The trees had 

 but meager success in English orchards, 

 but the pippins from America were 

 immensely popular in the markets of 

 London and other English cities. 



Though to Franklin must be given 

 the honor of introducing American 

 njiples to the Ijiglish people, the export 

 trade was really inaugiu'ated through 

 the efforts of Andrew Stevenson, of 

 Albemarle County, Virginia, wlio was 

 minister to the Court of St. James in 

 the first year of Queen Victoria's reign. 

 ^^'hile in England he had pippins sent 

 from home for his own use, and he pre- 

 sented several barrels to the queen, who 

 was so much pleased with the excellent 

 (|uality and flavor of Ihe apjiles that she 

 rewai'ded Sleveiison's courtesy by hav- 

 ing the small import duty on ap))les 

 removed. 



Since then the pi|ipin has become 

 steadily more and more popular in the 

 English markets, selling for large sums 

 dining the iidddle of the lasts century. 

 A specific instance may be of interest at 

 Ibis time, when fruit growers have to 

 be contented with three or four dollars 

 a barrel for excellent apples. 



Robert I'ell, of Ulster County, New 

 York, owned in 1845 an orchard con- 

 taining a large number of Newtown 

 Pil)pin trees. They yielded that year a 

 crop which sold in the I>ondon market 

 for as high as twenty-one dollars a 

 barrel! The English nobility boiigbl 

 these apples for their tables at the 

 slartling price of one guinea a dozen — 

 forty-two cents apiece! 



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