NEW APPLES. 



333 



coming county, the follow- 

 ing interesting and satis- 

 factory information : 



"The Republican Pip- 

 pin originated here. Geo. 

 "Webb, who moved to this 

 place in 1796, found the 

 original tree in the woods, 

 and named it the Republi- 

 can Pippin. As he kept a 

 nursery, he propagated the 

 variety extensively ; and it 

 is now well known in this 

 region of the state, where 

 it is highly esteemed. Some 

 scions were sent to Eng- 

 land, in 1827, to J. H. 

 Lewis, Esq., of East Far- 

 leigh, in Kent, and he now 

 has trees of it in bearing. 

 J. W. Alder, Esq., of this place, took some 

 of the grafts to a friend of his at Burling- 

 ton, N. J., some 20 years ago. The ori- 

 ginal tree is still standing, in good health, 

 and had a large crop of fruit on it this 

 year. The apples have been preserved 

 till April ; and Mr. Black, of Tioga county, 

 told me that, with him, it proved as good 

 a winter apple as he desired. He lives, 

 however, in a very cold place (Block- 

 house,) on the Alleghany mountain. The 

 usual time of ripening is from the middle 

 of September to the middle of October. 

 It is fit for cooking the last of July. For 

 drying it cannot be surpassed, cooking to a 

 fine pulp in a very short time. In the 

 green state it cooks remarkably well, and 

 has a delicious flavor. The tree grows vigor- 

 ously on any soil, hut does not bear well on 

 limestone land. It has a crop every year." 



From the specimens sent to me, the fol- 

 lowing pomological description has been 

 drawn up : 



Fruit large, from two and three-fourths 



Fig. 33. — Republican Pippin. 



to three inches long, by three and three- 

 fourths to four inches in width ; form 

 roundish flattened ; skin striped with red, 

 on a mottled reddish ground, and, where 

 not exposed to the sun, of a greenish yel- 

 low, [dotted with a few large gray dots ;] 

 stem about an inch long, and very slender 

 for so large a fruit, inserted in a narrow, 

 rather deep cavity, which is sometimes a 

 little russetted ;* calyx with small or nar- 

 row segments, closed, and set in a mode- 

 rately deep basin; core small ; seed brown, 

 large, broad, plump ; flesh yellowish white, 

 tender; flavor pleasant and peculiar, [slightly 

 sub-acid,] resembling somewhat that of wal- 

 nuts ; quality No. 1. Ripe in Sept. and Oct. 

 II. Smoke-House. — This excellent apple 

 originated in the neighborhood of Lampe- 

 ter township, Lancaster county, Pennsyl- 

 vania, on the farm of Wm. Gibbons. It 

 grew near his smoke-house; hence its name. 

 It was introduced into notice about 12 years 

 ago, by Mr. Ashbridge. 



* The russet patch diverging in rays. Eo. 



