ofhealth and vigour, the Golden Pippin retained the charac- 

 ter of a very prime cider apple. But owing to the debilitated 

 state of the variety, in which the vital principle appears to be 

 nearly expended, much of the fruit generally remains imper- 

 fect and immature, as represented in the plate ; and almost 

 all the cider which it has afforded within the last twenty 

 years has been crude and thin, or very frequently acetous. 

 No attempts to propagate it, as a cider apple, are now made 

 in Herefordshire ; though many trees of it, of very large size, 

 still remain ; and thinking it scarcely in existence as a cider 

 apple, I neglected to ascertain the specific gravity of its ex- 

 pressed juice, which of course must admit of much varia-. 

 tion in different apples, though taken from the same tree. 



