VIII. 



THE ORANGE PIPPIN. 



The Orange Pippin is cultivated in different parts of the 

 County of Hereford under different names, and has been 

 not unfrequently confounded with the Loan Pearmain, 

 which it somewhat resembles in form and colour; but it is 

 a larger and a much more sweet apple. The name does not 

 seem perfectly appropriate, for the colour of the apple is 

 very different from that of an orange : but when the crop of 

 fruit is perfectly ripe, and seen at such a distance that the 

 red and yellow colour are mingled and blended together, the 

 effect on the eye may be conceived to be not very widely 

 different from that which a similar crop of very ripe Seville 

 Oranges would produce ; and from this circumstance the 

 Orange Pippin possibly derived its name. It is not appa- 

 rently a very old variety ; for young trees of it still grow 

 freely and bear well : but I have seen trees of it, which were 

 at least eighty years old : and therefore the variety can now 

 scarcely deserve culture, though it is certainly an excellent 

 cider apple, and its yellow pulp communicates a beautiful 

 golden tinge to the juices of other varieties. The specific 

 gravity of its juice is about 1074. I am ignorant of its 

 native country, and of its history previously to the last 

 thirty years. 



