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TAUNTON GOLDEN PIPPIN. 
unpalatable in dessert Apples is esteemed as veiy advantageous 
in cider fruit. The Taunton Golden Pippin has, by many 
fx'uit-growers in the West of England, been used for cider, and 
is found to produce a liquor of firshrate quality. Although 
its exterior has not brilliancy of colour, it has much general 
warmth of tint, and its flesh is also yellow ; it therefore agrees 
with Mr. Knight's theory, who observes, “When the rind and 
pulp are green, the cider will be thin, weak, and colourless ; 
and when these are deeply tinged with yellow, it will, however 
manufactured, or in whatever soil it may have grown, almost 
always possess colour, with either strength or richness. The 
substances which constitute the strength and body in this 
liquor, generally exist in the same proportion with the colour, 
though there does not appear to be any necessary connection 
between the tinging matter and the other component parts.” 
Our drawing of the Taunton Golden Pippin was made in 
January, at which time of the year it was in high perfection; 
it proved of excellent quality, and kept till April. Its eye is 
open, and sunk in a deep regular bason, veiy slightly marked 
with plaits. Stem short, inserted in a narrow, not deep, de- 
pression. Skin deep yellow, reddened on the sunned side, with 
deeper-coloured irregular streaks, and marked all over with 
slight russetty specks. Flesh yellow, firm, crisp, and smooth; 
not very juicy, but sweet, brisk, and well-flavoui’ed. 
The tree is of moderate grow'th, healthy, rather spreading, a 
good bearer, and succeeds well as a dwarf or standard, in com- 
mon soils. For standards, or six-feet dwarfs, it should be grafted 
on crab stocks; but for miniature trees it must be put on para- 
dise stocks; when, by root-pruning, it may be kept in full 
bearing, at a miniature height even of two feet. 
