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GRIMES 8 GOLDEN PIPPIN. 



Synonym,. Grimes's Golden. This excellent apple originated in Virginia; and 

 in its native locality the tree is prolific and hardy. The growth is upright-spread- 

 ing ; the fruit is of medium size, roundish-oblate, and slightly conical ; skin, some- 

 what uneven ; the color is a rich golden yellow, sprinkled with small gray and 

 light-colored dots; flesh, yellow, compact, crisp, tender, juicy, sprightly, sub-acid, 

 with a peculiar aroma. In quality, it ranks good to best ; season, December to 

 April. A fine pie-apple. 



many orchards we may see long, bare arms, utterly desti- 

 tute of any twigs, fruit-spurs, or foliage, for eight to twelve 

 feet from the body of the tree. The author has been in 

 more than one apple-tree top, some of the large limbs of 

 which were perfectly bare for fourteen feet in length ! On 

 the end of these long arms there were branches and twigs 

 about equal to a small tree five or six years old. Is any 

 person possessed of sufficient wisdom to tell of the advan- 

 tage resulting from such long and bare arms ? We have 

 never met with such a savant. Nature always makes a des- 

 perate effort to correct the errors of a tree-murderer, by 



