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XXV. A short Account of a new Apple, called the Downion 

 Pippin. In a Letter to the Secretary. By Thomas Andrew 

 Knight, Esq. F. R. S. $c. 



Read March 7, 1809- 



Dear Sir, 



I sent last autumn a couple of dozens of a new Apple, 

 the Downton Pippin, for the inspection of the Horticultural 

 Society, and I hope that it will be thought no very humble 

 imitation of the Golden Pippin, its male parent; being formed 

 by introducing the pollen of that variety into the blossom of 

 an Apple, provincially known under many names, but most 

 generally by that of the Orange Pippin, which name, how- 

 ever, 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, 

 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 Agricultural 

 Society, an excellent Cider Apple, and the hydrometer, as 

 well as the palate, indicates, that its expressed juice holds in 

 solution, a large quantity of saccharine matter. 



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

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



* Some grafts of the Dovmtvn Pippin, sent to the Botanic Garden at Bromp- 

 ton, in the spring of 1807, 1 am informed, have already produced fruit abundantly. 



