WILLIAMS S GOLDEN PIPDIN. 
Seecllitig Apple trees rarely produce fruit till they are from ten 
to fifteen years old. They continue in strength and fertility 
for at least sixty years ; after which, there is much reason to 
believe, that a gradual decline takes place, not alone in the 
original tree, but in all its offspring, however favourably they 
may be wedded to stocks of genial growth. 
INIany horticulturists believe the old Golden Pippin to be 
still a healthy tree, but this is somewhat doubtful. The Gol- 
den Pippins usually met with, are new varieties, of which there 
are several. Our present Apple is one amongst them, and for 
which we are indebted to J. Williams, Esq., of Pitmaston, who 
in this country must rank, as an experimental horticulturist, 
next to his late friend and coadjutor, Mr. Knight. Mr. Wil- 
liams has, from many years’ observation, clearly distinguished 
the old from all the new varieties. “The old Golden Pippin,” 
says he, “has always a small pursed eye; there are, however, 
many good Apples, called Golden Pippins, but the ej’e in them 
is wide and open.” To this strongly marked distinction we 
call the attention of every pomologist who contends for the 
healthy existence of that Golden Pippin which was so highly 
extolled by the early English writers on horticulture. 
Ronalds observes that the fruit from old trees is firmer and 
richer than from young ones. Golden Pippins were the pride 
of May in former years, but now they decay earlier. Those 
now met with are larger than that figured by Langley, a 
hundred and twenty years ago. And again, the peculiarly fine 
flavour of the old variety is not discoverable in the showy fruit 
of the present day. These are so many reasons for believing 
that an inferior variety was introduced at an early period, — 
perhaps a hundred years ago ; whilst the original is doubtless 
more than two hundred years old. 
The eye of Mr. Williams’s Golden Pippin is sunk in a bason 
formed by gently-rising lobes ; but is neither small, nor pursed 
up at its base. Its colour a rich yellow, sprinkled with russet. 
Flesh j'ellow, smooth, crisp, veiy sweet, and pleasant flavoured, 
but not so rich as the old variety. The tree, like its prototype, 
is of rather small growth, and well suited for dwarf culture. 
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