PLATE XXXVI 1 . 
2. SCARLET GOLDEN PIPPIN. 
This very beautiful variety originated as a bud spurt on the old Golden Pippin , about fifty 
years since (c. 1820), at Gourdie Hill, in Perthshire. The variety is named, but not described, in 
the Catalogue of the London Horticultural Society for 1831. It is also mentioned in the edition of 
1842, though without any description. 
Description. —Fruit: small, roundish oblong in shape, very regular and free from angles, but 
rather flattened at the eye and base. Skin: very rich in colour, of a golden yellow on the shaded side, 
but covered almost entirely with a scarlet blush, and becoming of a deep red opposite the sun ; the 
whole surface being strewed with small russety dots. Eye : large and open with broad calyx 
segments, placed in a shallow basin, generally even but sometimes grooved. Stalk : half to three- 
quarters of an inch long, inserted in a narrow but rather deep cavity. Flesh : yellow, crisp, and 
firm, with a sweet and pleasant flavour, very similar to the Golden Pippin itself, from which indeed, 
except for its brilliant colour, it differs but little. 
The great beauty of this variety renders it one of the most attractive fruits of the table, quite 
apart from its own merits as a dessert Apple. It is in season from November to March. 
The tree makes an excellent espalier or dwarf standard. It bears abundantly, and forms a 
beautiful object in the garden. 
