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apples known. In perfection in October ; but from its firmness, 

 and very sugary nature, it would probably keep for a considerably 

 longer period. 



The other, called the Sudbury Beauty, is a very handsome table 

 Apple much resembling in appearance a well-grown Downton Apple, 

 not only in size and form, but also in the colour and marks in the 

 skin. Flesh rich and juicy, rather more yellow than that of the 

 Downton ; when tried in October, it proved excellent, appearing 

 likely to keep for some time, and is beyond all doubt an excellent 

 fruit. There is a great probability that the Golden Pippin has 

 been one of its parents. 



On the 18th of October, 1832, John Williams, Esq. of Pit- 

 maston, sent some fruit of the Golden Pippin grown on the Common 

 Stock, and on the Siberian Crab Stock ; accompanied with the 

 following remarks. " Walking through the garden of a friend in 

 Worcestershire two days ago, some yellow ripe Golden Pippins 

 took my eye ; these were growing on a tree I recommended, three 

 or four years ago, to be worked with the Golden Pippin, and which 

 was a healthy stock raised from the Siberian Crab. The grafts were 

 taken from an old Espalier, grafted on the Common Crab, in the 

 same garden. The difference in the degree of ripeness of the fruit 

 was most remarkable." 



" When the truth of preconceived theory is confirmed by the 

 result of actual experiments, it affords great satisfaction to the mind. 

 I refer to my paper published some years ago,* in which I re- 

 commended the Golden Pippin Apple to be grafted on the Sibe- 

 rian Crab Root and Stock ; I say root and stock, for some have 

 absurdly regrafled the Siberian Crab obtained from nurseries which 

 had been worked on the Common Apple or Crab Stock : of course 

 this could have no effect." 



* See Horticultural Transactions, Vol. VL p. 539. 



