SUMMER OOUBEN PIPPm 
HE Golden Pippin is freely spoken of by al- 
most everj' body, a tenth part of whom never 
saw the real Apple -wliich obtained for the 
name so great a celebrity, a hundred years ago. 
As we have prertously said, the original, high- 
flavoured, delicious. Golden Pippin of our fore- 
fathers, is rarely to be met with, even in good collections of fiuits. 
When reproduced from seed, its offspring very frequently beai’s a 
close resemblance, externally, to the pai'ent ; and it is possible that 
some such seedlings may equal in quality the far-famed parent, 
but we never yet have met with one to which such character 
could be attributed. The newly-raised varieties are generally 
larger and handsomer than the old ; but who can boast of their 
firmness and dehcious flavour existing, in the month of May, as 
did our forefathers, in respect to their favourite little Golden finit 
That the tme old Golden Pippin may still be met with is pos- 
sible, and that by careful management it may still be cultivated 
with advantage ; but ^vithout due attention to its cultivation, 
favoured by propitious circumstances, it will but produce disap- 
pointment. Mr. Wilhams, of Pitmaston, after many experiments 
