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FRANKLIN'S GOLDEN PIPPIN APPLE. 



Franklin's Golden Pippin. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 383. 

 Sudlow's Fall Pippin. Hort. Tram. vol. iv. p. 217. 



This sort apj3ears to be of American origin. 

 There is no doubt that it was received by Mr. 

 Sudlow, of Thames Ditton, from the United States, 

 as appears from the statement in the Transactions 

 of the Horticultural Society above referred to. By 

 what name it was originally imported, there seems 

 to be no means of determining with accuracy, 

 although it is highly probable that what is here 

 adopted was its American designation. We do not 

 find it in American catalogues. 



Dr. Diel, the celebrated German Pomologist, 

 describes it, vol. x. p. 92 of his great work, and 

 says, that he obtained it from Messrs. Loddiges : 

 as this must have been before 1806, the date of 

 its introduction to England cannot have been later 

 than 1805. We mention this in order to shew, that 

 when the fruit was named Sudlow's Fall Pippin 

 in the Transactions of the Horticultural Society in 

 1819, the variety had been in England a consider- 

 able time. 



An excellent hardy sort, in use in October, 

 November, and December ; hence, the supposed 

 synonyme of Summer Golden Pippin, which has been 



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