FRANKLIN’S GOLDEN P IP P IN APPLE.
Franklin’s Golden Pippin. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 383.
Sudlow’s Fall Pippin. Hort. Trans, vol. iv. p. 217.
This sort appears to be of American origin.
There is no doubt that it was received by Mr.
Sudlow, of Thames Ditton, from the United States,
as appears from the statement in the Transactions
of the Horticultural Society above referred to. By
what name it was originally imported, there seems
to be no means of determining with accuracy,
although it is highly probable that what is here
adopted was its American designation. We do not
find it in American catalogues.
Dr. Diel, the celebrated German Poraologist,
describes it, vol. x. p. 92 of his great work, and
says, that he obtained it from Messrs. Loddiges:
as this must have been before 1806, the date of
its introduction to England cannot have been later
than 1805. We mention this in order to shew, that
when the fruit was named Sudlow’s Fall Pippin
in the Transactions of the Horticultural Society in
1819, the variety had been in England a considerable
time.
An excellent hardy sort, in use in October,
November, and December; hence, the supposed
synonyme of Summer Golden Pippin, which has been
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