11. 



THE GOLDEN PIPPIN. 



The Golden Pippin is probably as old a variety of the ap- 

 ple, as the Redstreak, though the culture of it cannot be traced 

 to quite so remote a period :^ for the " GolcUng Pippm" of 

 Parkinson, (who wrote in 1629) which he states to be the 

 *' largest and best of all sorts of Pippins " I conceive to have 

 been a different variety ; particularly as many of the apples 

 which Parkinson has named and described are certainly 

 different varieties from those subsequently known by the 

 same names. 



The Golden Pippin is generally supposed to be a native 

 of Britain, and to have been hence exported to the Conti- 

 nent : and I have seen it described and figured in a Dutch 

 catalogue of fruits under the name of the " Engelsche Pep- 

 peng," and the " Efigelsche Goud Peppeng f and the French 

 name is merely a translation of the English name, being 

 " Pepin dVr," 



The Golden Pippin appears to have been cultivated for 

 the press in other parts of England, earlier than in Hereford- 

 shire, in which county it was, however, very extensively plant- 

 ed before the end of the 17th century, and many very large 

 orchards of it remained in the middle of the 18th century : 

 and as long as the trees possessed even a moderate degree 



* Evelyn's Pomona. 



