VIT. 



THE GRANGE APPLE. 



The Grange Apple is of modern date, having sprung from 

 seed in my nursery in the year 1792. It is the offspring 

 of the Orange Pippin, of which a deUneation is given in the 

 succeeding plate, and the produce of a blossom which was 

 deprived of its stamina, and subsequently fertilized by the 

 pollen of the Golden Pippin. It is an established maxim, 

 amongst breeders of improved animals, that the males and 

 females, from which they propagate, must not be nearly re- 

 lated to each other ; and however widely plants and animals 

 differ from each other, very extensive experience has satis- 

 fied me that the same maxim is equally applicable to both. 



The Grange Apple inherits much of the character of its 

 male parent, both in external appearance and flavour, and 

 will probably prove an excellent Apple for the Press, the 

 specific gravity of its juice, expressed from a very perfect 

 sample of the fruit, having been 1079-* The trees of this 

 variety grow very freely in favourable soils, and the fruit, in 

 moderatel}^ warm situations and seasons, ripens about the 

 middle of October : it obtained the premium annually given 

 by the Agricultural Society of Herefordshire for the best 

 Cider Apple, recently obtained from seed, in the year 1802, 



* The specific gravity of the juice of the Golden Pippin, in the same soil 

 and season, was 1078. 



