THE GOLDEN PIPPIN. 
The Golden Pippin is probably as old a variety of the ap¬ 
ple, as the Redstreak, though the culture of it cannot be traced 
to quite so remote a period :* for the “ Golding Pippin” of 
Parkinson, (who wrote in 1629) which he states to be the 
“ largest and best of all sorts of Pippins,” I conceive to have 
been a different variety; particularly as many of the apples 
which Parkinson has named and described are certainly 
different varieties from those subsequently known by the 
same names. 
The Golden Pippin is generally supposed to be a native 
of Britain, and to have been hence exported to the Conti¬ 
nent : and I have seen it described and figured in a Dutch 
catalogue of fruits under the name of the “ Engelsche Pep- 
peng,” and the “ Engelsche Goud Peppeng and the French 
name is merely a translation of the English name, being 
“ Pepin d’Or.” 
The Golden Pippin appears to have been cultivated for 
the press in other parts of England, earlier than in Hereford¬ 
shire, in which county it was, however, very extensively plant¬ 
ed before the end of the 17th century, and many very large 
orchards of it remained in the middle of the 18th century : 
and as long as the trees possessed even a moderate degree 
* Evelyn’s Pomona. 
