78 APPLE. 



orders are often filled up from these fashionable lists, 

 which compels the nurseryman either to extend his 

 collection to a ruinous extent, lose his customer, or 

 adopt the new name by misnaming" some other tree 

 in his collection, which though a perfectly harmless 

 imposition, makes a perfect chaos of the nomencla- 

 ture. In the following pages those pippins only are 

 described which the author can vouch for being 

 really worth cultivation ; it being quite foreign to his 

 purpose in this publication, to take any thing at 

 second-hand, which is so completely within reach of 

 his own personal experience. 



83. Summer Golden Pippin. — A superior dessert 

 fruit, and fit for the table about the beginning of 

 September. The fruit is small, oval, and of a deep 

 yellow colour on the sun side. The skin is dotted 

 all over with brown spots, common to most of the 

 dessert pippins. The flesh is breaking, and abounds 

 with a fine-flavoured juice. The tree is an early and 

 free bearer, and forms a handsome third class variety 

 in the orchard. It is well calculated for potting, 

 dwarf training, or low espaliers in the garden, when 

 worked on the paradise stock. A light loamy soil on . 

 a dry bottom suits it best. 



84. Autumn Golden Pippin, — This apple is in 

 season in September and October, and is not so 

 much cultivated as it deserves to be. The fruit is 

 below the middle size, the stalk short, the eye large 

 and prominent. The colour a fine blush next the 

 sun, the opposite deep yellow when ripe. The pulp is 

 crisp, not very juicy ; but the flavour is rich and agree- 



