12 APPLES. 



This appears to be of American origin, and was imported 

 by Mr. Sudlow from the United States, as appears from the 

 statement in the Transactions of the Horticultural Society 

 above alluded to in 1819. Its introduction, however, was 

 previously to this, and cannot have been later than 1805 or 

 1806. 



25. Frank Rambour. Sivitzer. 

 Rambour Franc. Duh. Yol. i. 28. t. 10. 

 Rambour Gros. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 844. 



Fruit large, of a flattish and somewhat irregular figure, 

 about two inches and a half deep, and three inches and a 

 quarter in diameter. Eye rather large, with a long conni- 

 vent calyx, deeply sunk in an irregularly angled basin. Stalk 

 short, deeply inserted. Skin pale yellow, with a few stains 

 of red on the sunny side, and a little russety in the cavity 

 round the stalk. Flesh rather soft, with a slightly acid juice. 

 A good culinary apple in October and November. 



26. Golden Pippin. Ray (1688), No. 9. Pom. Heref. 

 t. 2. 



Pepin d'Or. Knoop. Pom. 54. t. 9. 



Fruit small, perfectly round in its outline, without any 

 angles on its sides, generally from an inch and a half to two 

 inches, both in its depth and diameter. In young and vigo- 

 rous trees its size will be more, and of a greater length ; but 

 on old trees, which are in health, the size will be less, and 

 shorter than its width. Eye small, in an even shallow basin. 

 Stalk one inch long, slender. Skin bright yellow, or gold 

 colour, interspersed with several gray russetty specks on the 

 sunny side, and full of minute, pearl-coloured, imbedded 

 specks. Flesh pale bright gold colour, crisp. Juice rich, 

 saccharine, of the most delicious flavour of any apple we 

 possess, if in high perfection. 



The Golden Pippin, one of the most celebrated and es- 

 teemed apples of this or perhaps any other country, has been 

 considered by some of our modern writers on pomology to be 

 in a state of decay, its fruit of inferior quality in comparison 

 to that of former times, and its existence near its termination. 

 I cannot for a moment agree with such an opinion, because 

 we have facts annually before our eyes completely at variance 

 with such an assertion. Any person visiting C event Garden 

 or the Borough markets during the fruit season, and indeed 

 any other large market in the southern or midland counties 

 of England, will find specimens of fruit as perfect and as fine 

 as any which have been either figured or described by any 



