IX. 
THE DOWNTON PIPPIN. 
The Downton Pippin sprang, like the Grange Apple, and 
in the same year, from a seed of the preceding variety, and 
from the pollen of the Golden Pippin. It a good deal re¬ 
sembles its male parent in form and colour, and still more 
nearly in flavour, and it is, I believe, entitled to the first 
place amongst new varieties, as a fruit for the dessert. The 
trees grow very freely, and are most exuberantly productive 
of fruit, the grafts inserted in one season usually affording 
blossoms in the succeeding spring. Linnaeus was of opinion 
that the character of the male parent generally predominated 
in the exterior of the offspring, and both the Grange Apple 
and Downton Pippin might be adduced as examples in 
support of his- hypothesis; which nevertheless I have had, in 
many other cases, ample reasons to reject. The Downton 
Pippin ripens in the end of October; but it may be preserved 
till March. The specific gravity of its juice, when expressed 
from a well ripened sample of the fruit, is about 1080. The 
original tree, with that of the Grange Apple, is growing at 
Wormsley Grange, in Herefordshire. 
There is a degree of freshness in the bark, both of this 
and of the Grange Apple, that is not generally seen in older 
varieties ; and the leaves are more green than is common 
when the fruit is ripe. The drawings are, however, perfectly 
accurate, and are portraits of branches selected by myself 
from young trees in my nursery. 
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