THE GRANGE APPLE. 
Tiie Grange Apple is of modern date, having sprung from^ 
seed in my nursery in the year 1792. It is the offspring 
of the Orange Pippin, x)f which a delineation is given in the 
succeeding plate, and the produce of a blossom which was 
deprived of its stamina, and subsequently fertilized by the 
pollen of the Golden Pippin. It is an established maxim,, 
amongst breeders of improved animals, that the males and 
females, from which they propagate, must not be nearly re¬ 
lated to each other; and however widely plants and animals 
differ from each other, very extensive experience has satis¬ 
fied me that the same maxim is equally applicable to both. 
The Grange Apple inherits much of the character of its 
male parent, both in external appearance and flavour, and 
will probably prove an excellent Apple for the Press, the 
specific gravity of its juice, expressed from a very perfect 
sample of the fruit, having been 1079.* The trees of this 
g-pQw very freely m favourable soils, and the fruit, m 
moderately warm situations and seasons, ripens about the 
middle of October: it obtained the premium annually given 
by the Agricultural Society of Herefordshire for the best 
Cider Apple, recently obtained from seed, in the year 1802, 
* The specific gravity of the juice of the Golden Pippin, in the same soil- 
and season^ was 1078. 
