TAUHTOK (&OJLBEN FIFFIM« 
OLDEN Pippin has, for ages past, been a 
favouiite name, and is home by many seedling 
Apples, which have very little affinity to the 
oiiginal variety. The Taunton Golden Pippin 
has more of its inward qualities, than outward resemblance, 
and will not disgrace the name. 
With the Taunton Golden Pippin we were favoured by the 
Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co. nurserymen, of Exeter, who 
have grown it many years, but can give no account of its 
origin. It is well known in most of the fruit-gi'owing districts 
of Somersetshire and Devonshire ; and as it bears no other dis- 
tinguishing name than that which we have given, it may be 
presumed to have had its origin in one or other of the aforesaid 
counties, in the neighbourhood of Taunton. 
It does not generally occur that the Apple which is superior 
for the dessert, is also good for the production of cider; indeed 
the contrary is usually the fact, for the astringency which is 
