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probable age, and we mention it again to obserre that 

 it is said to be a native of Sussex, and to have been 

 first reared at Barham Park, situated on the north 

 side of the South Downs. The Dutch acknowledged 

 it to be an English apple in their catalogue of fruits, 

 where it is called the Engelsche goud Pepping/' 

 The French call it Pippin d'Or/' which is a trans- 

 lation of the English name. Worlidge notices the 

 Golden Pippin, and says, it is smaller than the 

 Orange-apple, else much like it in colour, taste, and 

 long-keeping/' Evelyn observes, in his Diary, 22nd 

 October, 1685, that " at Lord Clarendon's seat at 

 Swallowfield, Berks, there is an orchard of 1000 

 Golden and other cider Pippins." Catherine, Em- 

 press of Russia, was so fond of this apple, that she 

 was regularly supplied with it from England ; and in 

 order that she might have it in the greatest perfec- 

 tion, e?.ch apple was separately enveloped in silver 

 paper before it was packed. (FhiUijJs' History of 

 Fruits, 34.) 



We have already noticed the early existence of 

 apple orchards in the south-west of England, and we 

 must not close this section without some further re- 

 marks upon that great cider district. Evelyn says 

 that Herefordshire alone, in his time, was known to 

 produce annually 50,000 hogsheads of cider, and, 

 proceeding to remark on some of the apples employed 

 in its manufacture, states that the Eedstreak was a 



