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FITMASTOE’ OOFBEN WKEATH» 
NGLAXD acknowledges the Golden Pippin as 
ancient inhabitants, and for several 
ages past, this Apple has been a distinguished 
favourite. Mr. Knight, the late president of the 
Horticultural Society, believed, agreeably to his theoiy, that 
the Golden Pippin had, from old age alone, fallen into a state 
of decrepitude and decay, from which it never could be reco- 
vered by being grafted on other stocks, however healthy these 
may be. The graft, being merely an extension of the original 
tree, would, more or less, paidake of its declining health. The 
correctness of this theoiy of our great experimentalist, has been 
doubted by many pomologists. Mr. Knight may not have 
given sufficient latitude to the existence of some sorts of Apple; 
but, that decay of many old sorts is every day obseiwahle, none 
can dispute; and that many of the varieties which are now 
called Old Golden Pippins, and pointed to as contradictory of 
his theoiy, are seedlings of late date, we are fully convinced. 
The excellence of the Golden Pippin, and the fear of alto- 
gether losing it, has induced many to propagate from it by 
