ELFOED PIPPIN. 
the Society, which was pronounced to be of first-rate flavour. 
At many of the provincial e.xhibitions in the neighbourhood of 
its native village, to which a knowledge of it has hitherto been 
almost wholly confined, the first prize has been awarded to the 
Elford Pippin. 
The progress which horticulture has lately made, and is 
making at the present time, renders it indispensible that every 
person who would desire not to be considered a careless culti- 
vator of fruit, should fail not to possess good varieties, and good 
varieties only. It is not an admissible excuse that he did not 
select his own trees, inasmuch as he can select grafts ; and every 
Apple tree in particular, whose fmit is inferior, ought, without 
delay, to be headed down, and grafted forthwith. In so short 
a time may all the worthless varieties in an orchard of full- 
grown Apple and Pear trees be completely changed, and made 
productive of the most valuable fruit, that no excuse can be 
pleaded for the owner of inferior produce continuing its growth. 
Our drawing of this Apple was made in October, in which 
month it arrives at its highest state of perfection. If kept till 
December, its qualities begin to be deteriorated. It has a rather 
wide eye, in a shallow, widish, slightly-lobed bason. Stem short, 
in a moderately deep cavity. Skin greenish yellow, specked, 
and having an occasional patch of mossy-looking nisset. Its 
sunned side is tinted with a softened red, mingled with slightly 
visible short stripes. Flesh yellowish, easily breaking, sweet, 
and very pleasantly flavoured. 
The tree is of moderately free and rather upright growth, not 
subject to canker ; and succeeds admirably when grown as a 
dwarf, on seedling stocks of the Siberian Crab. 
