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Among the new apples which the world have 

 to thank Mr. Knight for, is the Grange 

 apple, which fruited first in 1802, and ob- 

 tained the prize of the Herefordshire Agri- 

 cultural Society : it is the offspring of the 

 Orange Pippin and the Golden Pippin. He 

 also obtained the annual premium of the 

 same society, in 1807, for the Siberian Har- 

 vey, an apple which fruited for the first time 

 in that year. This tree was raised from the 

 seed of the Yellow Siberian Crab and the 

 pollen of the Golden Harvey. Mr. Knight 

 also raised the Fox ley apple, from the seed 

 of the yellow Siberian Crab and the pollen 

 of the Orange Pippin : this fruit also received 

 the premium in 1808, and it is said to rival 

 the Golden Pippin in sweetness. 



The cultivation of this, our most valuable 

 fruit, has been attended to with so much 

 care of late years, that one of our great 

 gardeners, (Mr. Hugh Ronalds, of Brent- 

 ford,) exhibited at the Horticultural Society, 

 in August, 1818, sixteen varieties of apples, 

 and in September he exhibited fifty-eight 

 other sorts, all grown in his own garden, 

 and considered the finest collection ever 

 exhibited. In the month of October of the 

 same year, he exhibited fifty-three sorts, 

 making in the whole a variety of 127 kinds 



