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have an opportunity to study this important fruit more closely, 

 and to clear up some of the doubts which at present exist in 

 regard to the identity of many varieties. 



LXI. Holland Pippin. Lon. Hort. Soc. Catalogue, 1842. 



Summer Pippin, ?fj^^^ J 

 Pie Apple, ) 



The Holland Pippin, (fig, 27,) is an apple of considerable 



repute, and has long been cultivated in New Jersey and New 



27. THE HOLLAND PIPPIN. 



York, but has not found its way into many orchards in the 

 New England States. It has for a long time been considered, 

 by many, as synonymous with the Fall Pippin, a variety re- 

 sembling it in many particulars, but a distinct fruit. In 

 England it is esteemed a culinary apple of the first quality, 

 and with us it more than sustains its reputation, being un- 

 doubtedly improved by our warmer and dryer climate, for it 

 is nearly or quite equal to the Fall Pippin. It is to the early 

 fall apples what the Rhode Island Greening is to the early 

 winter sorts, and it deserves extensive cultivation. 



Size, large, about three and a half inches broad and three 

 deep : Form, roundish, slightly flattened at each end, rather 



