161 THE FRUIT GARDES, 



Kinds of Fruits described. 

 I shall give a short description of the kinds here 

 enumerated, taking them as they stand in the lists. 



APPLES. 



1. GoJdoi Pippin. — This apple is universally 

 known, and generally esteemed the king of pippins. 

 It is a good keeper, whenfully ripened, and amongst 

 the best of our table-fruits. It is small, rather long 

 than round, and very beautiful. The tree grows 

 freely in good, lightish soil; butinstiff^ orwetland^ 

 it languishes. * 



2. OsIinFippin; by some, Original Pippin ; by o- 

 thers, Arbroath Pippin. — This is an excellent apple. 

 As to flavour, it is outdone by none but the nonpareil, 

 over which it has this advantage, that it will ripen 

 both in a worse climate, and a worse aspect. It is 

 larger than the golden pippin, and more round ; 

 earlier, but not so good a keeper. The tree grows 

 freely, even in tolerably good soil; and is a good 



* By Mr Knight's Treatise on llie Ap|)]e and Pear, we Feam, 

 that this kind in particular, and several others, are going fast to 

 decay in the Herefordshire orchards ; and tliat durable trees can- 

 not be procured from old ones by grafting ; with many other cu- 

 rious facts, concerning the apple and the pear. We have an ap* 

 pie in Scotland, called the Balgon Pippin, which inherits every 

 virtue and property of the golden pippin ; grows larger ; and the 

 tree is more healthy and luxuriant. It has probably been brought 

 from England, when the trees he mentions were in their middle 



