. The fruits and fruit trees of America : or, The culture, propagation and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally, with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fruit-culture; Fruit. THE APPLE. 14Y apples, in tie estimation of the English connoisseurs, as it unites the qualities of small size, fine fotm, and colour, with high flavour and durability. It is a very old variety, being mentioned by Evelyn, in 1660, but it thrives well in many parts of England still. The Grolden Pippin has never become popular in thi
. The fruits and fruit trees of America : or, The culture, propagation and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally, with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fruit-culture; Fruit. THE APPLE. 14Y apples, in tie estimation of the English connoisseurs, as it unites the qualities of small size, fine fotm, and colour, with high flavour and durability. It is a very old variety, being mentioned by Evelyn, in 1660, but it thrives well in many parts of England still. The Grolden Pippin has never become popular in thie country, either because the taste here, does not run in favour of small apples, with the high, sub-acid flavour Of the Golden Pippin, and other favourite English sorts, or because our Newtown pippins, Swaars, and Spitzenbjirghs, etc., are still higher fla- voured, and of a size more admired in this country. The Golden Pippin is not a very strong grower, and is rather suited to the gar den than the orchard, with us. Fruit small, round, aitd regularly formed. Skin gold colour, dotted with Golden Hppm. gray, russety dots, with also obscure white specks imbedded under the skin. Stalk nearly an inch long, slender. Calyx small, and set in a regular, shallow basin. Flesh yellowish, crisp, rather acid, but with a rich, brisk, high flavour. A great bearer, but inquires a strong, deep, sandy loam. , November to March. Does not succeed well here. There are many varieties of the English Golden Pippin, dif- fering but little in general appearance and size, and very little in flavour, irom the old sort, but of rather more thrifty growth; the best of these are Hughes', and Kirke's new Cluster Golden Pippins. Gbandfathek. Fruit large, roundish, oblate, inclining, to conic, somewhat angular. Skin whitish, marbled, striped, splashed, and shaded with crimson. Stalk short, inserted in a vety deep cavity, sur- rounded by russet. Calyx small, closed, set in a small deep, abrupt basin, surrounded b
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