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good properties of desert liuit, and one 

 ill particular, that it is of all others, the 

 Downton pippin excepted, the most pro- 

 ductive bearer. 



The New Ribsione Pippin. Is a fine large 

 striped apple very little inferior to the 

 Ribstone pippin which was its parent. 

 The seed of this kind was sown in the 

 garden of thellight Hon. the EarlofEgre- 

 mont, and has produced an offspring so 

 much like itself that I should scarcely 

 have supposed them to have been differ- 

 ent. The tree, however, from which I 

 have raised my own stock from buds and 

 grafts is on its own bottom. I can con- 

 gratulate the amateurs of fruit, on this 

 new variety, not that I believe it to be 

 better than its parent fruit, but on our 

 having an apple possessing all the su- 

 perior properties of that fruit in a young 

 healthy seedling tree, a circumstance of 

 the gj eatest moment, as from it we may 

 hope that prince of apples can be kept 

 With us for many years to come in a 

 healthy state. The good properties of 



