PLATE XLIX. 
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4. GOLDEN REINETTE. 
“ When a Pepin is planted on a Pepin Stock, the 
fruit growing thence is called a Renate , a most delicious 
fruit, as both by sire and dam are well descended.” 
Literally, Reinette, means a little queen. 
Drayton: Polyolbion-Fuller. 
[Syn : Golden Renet; Golden Rennet; Kirk s Golden Reinette ; Dundee; Wyker Pippin ; 
Wygers; Yellow German Reinette; Megginch Favorite; Aurore; Elizabeth; Princesse Noble; 
Ponline Madame ; Englise Pippin; Reinette d' Aix; Reinette Gielen ; Court-pendu dor 6 eh\ 
The origin of this variety is lost in antiquity. The great number of its synonymes proves 
that it has obtained a very extensive cultivation. It has long been known in this country, and 
esteemed as one of the finest apples. Worlidge (1676) says, “ It is to be preferred in our plantations 
for all occasions.” Ellis in his “ Modern Husbandman ” (1744) says, “ The Golden Rennet , when of 
the largest sort, may be truly said to be the farmer’s greatest favorite apple, because when all others 
miss bearing, this generally stands his friend, and bears him large quantities on one tree.” It has 
existed in Holland for more than a century under the name of Wyker Pippin. 
This fruit is well represented by Lindley, Plate 69, and by Ronalds, Plate xii., fig. 6. 
Description. —Fruit : medium sized, roundish and a little flattened. Skin : a fine deep yellow, 
which towards the sun is tinged with red, streaked with deeper and livelier red, and dotted all over 
with russety dots. Eye : large and open, with short dry segments, and set in a wide and even 
basin. Stalk : half an inch long, and deeply inserted in a round and even cavity. Flesh : yellow, 
crisp, brisk, juicy, rich and sugary. 
A fine old dessert apple of first rate quality. It is in season from November to April, and 
always commands a high price in the market. It is held in the highest esteem, for perhaps in no 
other apple is there so much beauty and excellence to be found combined. For this reason it is 
grown in large quantities in the counties round London. 
The tree is healthy and vigorous in congenial soils, but it is apt to canker if the drainage is 
defective. It bears abundantly, and is well adapted for dwarf training when worked on the Paradise 
stock, but it requires a light warm soil and sheltered situation. 
