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APPLES. 



land, which bears well, and retains its character with us. It is 

 rather adapted for the fruit garden than the orchard as the tree 

 is of slender growth, and it would not be a popular market fruit 

 here. 



Fruit small, irregularly round, and about two inches in di- 

 ameter. Skin rather rough, dull russet over a yellow ground, 

 with a russety red cheek. Calyx small, open, with stiff seg- 

 ments, and set in a very shallow basin. Stalk half an inch long, 

 and rather slender. Flesh yellow, of remarkably fine texture, 

 with a spicy, rich, sub-acid flavour. The fruit should be kept 

 in a cellar, or it is apt to shrivel. December to April. 



105. GOLDEN PIPPIN. Ray. Thomp. Lind. 



English Golden Pippin, 



Old Golden Pippin, ac. to Thomp. 



Balgone Pippin, 



Milton Golden Pippin, 



Russet Golden Pippin, 



Herefordshire Golden Pippin, 



London Golden Pippin, 



Warter's Golden Pippin, 



Bayfordhury Golden Pippin, 



Pepin d'Or. Knoop, 



Pomme d'Or. Noisette o. DuJ . 



Koening's Pippelin. 



Reinette d'Angleterre. 



The Golden Pippin of the English, is the queen of all dessert 

 apples, in the estimation of the English connoisseurs, as it unites 

 the qualities of small size, fine form, and colour, with high flavour 

 and durability. It is a very old variety, being mentioned by 

 Evelyn, in 1660, but it thrives well in many parts of England 

 still. The Golden Pippin has never become popular in this 

 country, either because the taste here, does not run in favour 

 of small apples, with the high, sub-acid flavour of the Golden 



Pippin, and other favourite 

 English sorts, or because our 

 Newtown pippins, Swaars, 

 and Spitzenburghs, etc., are 

 still higher flavoured, and 

 of a size more admired in 

 this country. The Golden 

 Pippin is not a very strong 

 [grower, and is rather suited 

 to the garden than the or- 

 chard, with us. 



Fruit small, round, and 

 regularly formed. Skin 

 gold colour, dotted with 

 gray, russety dots, with also 

 Fig. 44. Gotten Pippin. obscure white specks im- 



