PLATE XXXVII. 
i. GOLDEN PIPPIN. 
[Syn : Herefordshire Golden Pippin ; London Golden Pippin ; Bayfordbury Pippin; Milton 
Golden Pippin ; Russet Golden Pippin ; Warier s Golden Pippin ; American Plate ; Balgone Pippin ; 
with many other French and German Synonyms.] 
The precise origin of the Golden Pippin is unknown. All writers agree in calling it an 
English variety, as is also indicated by its foreign nomenclature ; and some writers state that it was 
raised at Parham Park, near Arundel, in Sussex. There is no doubt that it is a very old variety, 
although it is not mentioned by authors at so early a period as some others. It is not the “ Golden 
Pippin ” of Parkinson, for he speaks of it as the “ greatest and best of all sorts of Pippins.” It was 
perhaps this circumstance that led Mr. Thomas Andrew Knight to remark that “ from the description 
Parkinson has given of the apples cultivated in his time, it is evident that those known by the same 
names are different, and probably new varieties but this is no evidence of such being the case. 
The fact is there were two varieties of Golden Pippin , the “ Great Golding ” and the “ Small Golding 
or Bay ford,” both of which are mentioned by Leonard Meager, and there is no doubt the “ Golden 
Pippin ’ of Parkinson was the “ Great Golding .” Ralph Austin calls it “a very speciall apple and 
a great bearer.” Evelyn states that Lord Clarendon cultivated it, but it was only as a cider apple : 
for he says, “ At Lord Clarendon’s seat at Swallowfield, there is an orchard of 1,000 Golden and 
other cider Pippins.” In his treatise on “ Cider ” Evelyn frequently notices it as a cider apple ; 
but never alludes to it as a dessert fruit. In the “ Pomona" he says, “About London and the 
southern tracts, the Pippin, and especially the Golden, is esteemed for making the most delicious 
cider, most wholesome and most restorative.” Switzer calls it “ the most antient, as well as most 
excellent apple that is.” This is one of the old varieties of English apples that Mr. Knight so 
erroneously pronounced to be in the last stage of decay. A good figure is given of the Golden 
Pippin in Ronalds’ “ Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis, PI. xvii., fig. 5 ; and it is also well figured in 
Thomas Andrew Knight’s “ Pomona Herefordiensis ,” PI. ii. 
Description .—Fruit : small, roundish, inclining to oblong, regularly and handsomely shaped, 
