16 APPLES. 



26. GOLDEN PIPPIN. Ray (1688), No. 9- Pom. 

 Here/, 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 vigorous 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 

 grey russetty specks on the sunny side, and full of mi- 

 nute, 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 

 esteemed 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 Covent Garden 

 or the Borough markets during the fruit season, and 

 indeed any other large market in the southern or mid- 

 land counties of England, will find specimens of fruit 

 as perfect and as fine as any which have been either 

 figured or described by any writer whatever, either in 

 this or any other country. In favourable situations, in 

 many parts of the country, instead of the trees being in 

 a state of rapid decay, they may be found of unusually 

 large size, perfectly healthy, and their crops abundant ; 

 the fruit perfect in form, beautiful in colour, and excel- 

 lent in quality. I may refer to a tree at this time 



