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Grimes's Golden Pippin. 



Seed may be sown at any season in sandy loam : it vegetates more freely 

 if placed in bottom-heat. The plants intended for winter-blooming should 

 be bedded out in summer, and be well grown. Just before the frost comes, 

 they should be potted and placed in the greenhouse, where they will soon 

 come into bloom. E. S. R., jfiin. 



Glen Ridge, March, i86S. 



GRIMES'S GOLDEN PIPPIN (Syn., Grimes's Golden). 



The first publicly known of this apple was at a meeting of the Ohio 

 State Pomological Society in September, 1S55, where it was shown by 

 Samuel Wood and Son of Jefferson County, O., and who then gave its 

 origin as having been on the farm of Thomas Grimes, Brook County, Va. 

 This was published, with a condensed description of the fruit, in the Ohio 



Transactions. The soil of the parent tree was sandy; but experience with 

 it has proved that it does equally well on rich clay-loam as on sand. It is 

 claimed by those who have been in yearly acquaintance with this apple, that, 

 almost from the time of its first bearing, — now about seventy years, — it has 

 never failed to produce fruit : not even the severe frost of 1859, which 



