of health and vigour, the Golden Pippin retained the charac¬ 
ter of a very prime cider apple. But owing to the debilitated 
state of the variety, in which the vital principle appears to be 
nearly expended, much of the fruit generally remains imper¬ 
fect and immature, as represented in the plate ; and almost 
all the cider which it has afibrded within the last twenty 
years has been crude and thin, or very frequently acetous. 
No attempts to propagate it, as a cider apple, are now made 
in Herefordshire ; though many trees of it, of very large size, 
still remain ; and thinking it scarcely in existence as a cider 
apple, I neglected to ascertain the specific gravity of its ex¬ 
pressed juice, which of course must admit of much varia¬ 
tion in different apples, though taken from the same tree. 
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