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Account of the Downton Pippin. 



them, may be be brought 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. 



The specimens sent to the Horticultural Society grew in a 

 cold soil, and northern exposure, nor did they afford by any 

 means a favourable sample of this Apple. I hope next au- 

 tumn to lay before them several other new varieties 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 vital principle is nearly 

 exhausted. I remain yours, 



Thomas Andrew Knight. 



Downton, February 809. 



