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Society, and I hope it will be thought no very humble imi-? 

 tation of the golden pipin, its male parent ; being formed 

 by introducing the pollen of this variety into the blossom of 

 an apple provincially known under many names, but most 

 generally by that of the orange pippin, which name however 

 is by no means properly appropriated to it, for the fruit is 

 thickly streaked with red. 



The trees of both varieties were trained to a south wall, How pro- 

 and the blossoms of the orange pippin were of course pro- ""^^* 

 perly prepared for the experiment. The Downton pippin is, 

 in the opinion of a committee of the Herefordshire Agricul- 

 tural Society, an excellent cider apple, and the hydrometer. An excellent 

 as well as the palate, indicates, that its expressed juice holds ^^'^^^ apple. 

 in solution a large quantity of saccharine matter. 



The trees of this new variety grow very rapidly, and are Its good 

 so exuberantly* productive, that I am confident the fruit of '^"^*'^* 

 them may be brouglit to market at any given price, with 

 more advantage to the grower, than any other good apple 

 cultivated. It ripens a little earlier than the golden pippin, 

 but may be preserved in considerable perfection till March, 

 if not gathered too ripe. 



J. The specimens sent to the Horticultural Society grew in Other new 

 a cold soil, and northern exposure, nor did they afford by ^i^P'^^* 

 any means a favourable sample of this apple*. 1 hope next 

 autumn to lay before them several other, new varities of the 

 apple, obtained by similar means, and which will prove 

 well calculated to supply the place of those, which have been 

 long cultivated, and in which the vi'al principle is nearly 

 exhausted. I remain yours, 



Downton, Feb. 17, I8O9. T. A, KNIGHT. 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



Wernerian Society. 



jt\jY the meeting of this society on the 18th of January, « ^^ ■ ■ 

 prof. Jameson read a paper on porphyry, in which he de- 



• Some grafts of the Pownton pippin sent to the Botanic garden at 

 Brompton in the spring of 1 807, I am informed, have already produced 

 fruit abundantly. ^ 



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