Gala:

Geante d’Exposition:

Geeveston Fanny:

Geoff’s Tree:

George Carpenter:

George Neilson:

Golden Delicious:

Golden Delicious Mutation II:

Golden Harvey:

Golden Pippin:

Synonyms.—Small Golding Pippin, or Bayford, Meag. Eng. Gard. 85. Barford
Pippin, ace. Rail Hist. Russet Golden Pippin, Lang. Pom. 130, t. Ixxix. f. 5.
Balgown Pippin, Leslie and Anders. Cat. English Reinette, ace. West. Univ.
Bot. iv. 139. Old Golden Pippin, Rog. Fr. Cult. 98. English Golden Pippin,
Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1, n. 382. London Golden Pippin, Ibid. 387. Herefordshire
Golden Pippin, Ibid. 384. Milton Golden Pippin, Ibid. 388. Wartcr's Golden
Pippin, Ibid. 394. Balgone Pipjnn, Ibid. 35. Balgnne Golden Pippin, ace. Ibid.
ed. 3. Bayfordbury, ace. Ibid. ed. 3. American Plate, Ron. Pyr. Mai. 63,
pi. xxxii. f. 2. Guolden Peppins, Quint. List. i. 202. Reinette d'Angleterre,
Schab. Prat. ii. 88 Pepin d'Or, Knoop Pom. 54, tab. ix. Pomme d'Or, Duh. Arb.
Fruit, i. 292, t. 7. Gelbe Englische Pipe, Meyen Baumsch. No. 14. Gold
Pepping, Diel Kernobst. ii. 69. Peppin d'Or, Knoop. Pom. tab. ix. Goud Pepping,
/6/c?. 131. Goudeling's Pepping, /Ziid Gulden Pipping, 7i('rf. Engelsche
G^)ud Pepping, Ibid. Litle Pepping, Ibid. Koenings Peppeling, Hort. Soc.
Cat. ed. ], n. 527.

Fruit, small ; roundish, inclining to oblong, regularly and handsomely shaped, Avithout inequalities or angles on the sides. Skin, rich yellow, assuming a deep golden tinge when perfectly ripe, with a deeper tinge where it has been exposed to the sun ; the whole surface is strewed with russety dots,
which are largest on the sunny side, and intermixed with these are numerous embedded pearly specks. Eye, small and open, with long segments, placed in a shallow, smooth, and even basin.
Stalk, from half-an-inch to an inch in length, inserted in a pretty deep cavity. Flesh, yellow, firm, crisp, very juicy and sugary, with a brisk, vinous, and particularly fine flavor.
One of the oldest and by far the most highly esteemed of our dessert apples, and neither the Borsdorffer of the Germans, the Reinette of the French, nor the Newtown Pippin of the Americans, will ever occupy in the estimation of the English the place now accorded to the Golden Pippin.
It is also an excellent cider apple. The specific gravity of its juice is 1078.
It is in season from November to April (northern hemisphere).
The tree is a free and vigorous grower, but does not attain a great size. It is also an excellent bearer.
When and where the Golden Pippin was first discovered, are now matters of uncertainty ; but all writers agree in ascribing to it an English origin, some supposing it to have originated at Parham Park, near Arundel, in Sussex. Although it is not recorded at so early a period as some others, there is no doubt it is a very old variety.
It is not, however, the " Golding Pippin " of Parkinson, for he says " it is the greatest and best of all sorts of Pippins." It was perhaps this circumstance that led Mr. Knight to remark, that from the description Parkinson has given of the apples cultivated in his time, it is evident that those now known by the same names, are different, and probably new varieties. Bat this is no evidence of such being the case, for I find there were two sorts of Golden Pippin, the " Great Golding,"' and the " Small Golding, or Bayford," both of which are mentioned by Leonard Meager, and there is no doubt the " Golding Pippin," of Parkinson, was the " Great Golding."
Whether it was because it was little known, or its qualities were nappreciated, that the writers of the I7th century were so restrictive in their praises of the Golden Pippin, it is difficult to say ; but true it is whilst Pearmains, Red Streaks, Codlings, and Catsheads, are set forth as the desiderata of an orchard, the Golden Pippin is but rarely noticed.
Ralph Austin calls it " a very speciall apple and great bearer." Evelyn certainly states that Lord Clarendon cultivated it, but it was only as a cider apple : for he says " at Lord Clarendon's seat at Swallowfield, Berks, there is an orchard of 1000 Golden and other cider Pippins." In his Treatise on Cider he frequently notices it as a cider apple ; but never in any place that I can recollect of as a dessert fruit. In the Pomona, he says,
" About London and the southern tracts, the Pippin, and especially the Golden, is esteemed for making the most delicious cider, most wholesome, and most restorative."
Worlidge merely notices it as " smaller than the Orange Apple, else much like it in color, taste, and long keeping."
Ray seems the first who fully appreciated it, for after minutely and correctly describing it, he says, " Ad omnes culinse usus praestantissimum habetur, et Pomaceo conficiendo egregium." De Quintinye's remarks are not at all complimentary. He says it has altogether the character of the paradise or some other wild apple, it is extremely yellow and round, little juice, which is pretty rich, and without bad flavor.
But the Jardinier Solitaire, more impartial, or with better judgment, says, " son cau est tres sucree ; elle a le gout plus releve que la Reynette ; c'est ce que luy donne le merite d'etre reconnue pour une tres excellente pomme." The opinion of Angran de Rueneuve is also worth recording.
" La Pomme d'Or est venue d'Angleterre ; on I'y apelle Goule-Pepin. J'estime qu'elle doit etre la Reyne des Pommes, et que la Reynette ne doit marche qu' apres elle ; car elle est d'un plus fin relief que toutes les autres Pommes." Switzer calls it " the most antient, as well as most excellent apple that is." But it is not my intention to record all that has been written in praise of the Golden Pippin, for that of itself would occupy too much space, my object in making these extracts being simply to show the gradual progress of its popularity.
The late President of the London Horticultural Society, T. A. Knight, Esq., considered that the Golden Pippin, and all the old varieties of English apples, were in the last stage of decay, and that a few years would witness their total extinction. This belief he founded upon the degenerate state of these varieties in the Herefordshire orchards, and also upon his theory that no variety of apple will continue to exist more than 200 years. But that illustrious man never fell into a greater error.
It would be needless to enter into any further discussion upon a subject concerning which so much has already been said and written, as there is sufficient evidence to confute that theory. The Pearmain, which is the oldest English apple on record, shows no symptoms of decay, neither does the Catshead, London Pippin, Winter Quoining, or any other variety ; those only having been allowed to disappear from our orchards, which were not worth perpetuating, and their places supplied by others infinitely superior.
It is now considerably upwards of half a century since this doctrine was first promulgated, and though the old, exhausted, and diseased trees of the Herefordshire orchards, of which Mr. Knight spoke, together with their diseased progeny—now that they have performed their part, and fulfilled the end of their existence—may ere this have passed away, we have the Golden Pippin still, in all the luxuriance of early youth, where it is found in a soil congenial to its growth ; and exhibiting as little symptoms of decay as any of the varieties which Mr. Knight raised to supply the vacancy he expected it to create.
In the Brompton Park Nursery, where the same Golden Pippin has been cultivated for nearly two centuries, and continued from year to year by grafts taken from young trees in the nursery quarters, I never saw the least disposition to disease, canker, or decay of any kind ; but, on the contrary, a free, vigorous, and healthy growth.
But this alarm of Mr. Knight for the safety of the Golden Pippin, and his fear of its extinction, were based upon no new doctrine, for we find Mortimer a hundred years before, equally lamenting the Kentish Pippin.
After speaking of manures, &c., for the regeneration of fruit trees, he says, " I shall be glad if this account may put any upon the trial of raising that excellent fruit the Kentish Pippin, which else, I fear, will be lost. For I find in several orchards, both in Kent, Essex, and Hertfordshire, old trees of that sort, but I can find no young ones to prosper. A friend of mine tried a great many experiments in Hertfordshire, about raising them, and could never get them to thrive, though he had old
trees in the same orchard that grew and bore very well. I likewise tried several experiments myself, and have had young trees thrive so well, as to make many shoots of a yard long in a year, but these young shoots were always blasted the next year, or cankered ; whicli makes me think that the ancients had some particular way of raising them, that we have lost the knowledge of." Although this was written a hundred and fifty years ago, we have the Kentish Pippin still, which though not so much cultivated,
or so well known now as then, is nevertheless where it does exist as vigorous and healthy as ever it was.

Robert Hogg, British Pomology

Gooseberry Pippin:

Grandmere:

Granny Smith:

Granny Smith flat:

Gravenstein:
Synonyms.—Grave Slije, ace. Hort. Soc. Cat. Sabine, of the Flemings, I/jmI.
Gi-afensteiner, Diel Kernohst. viii. 8. Sickler Obstgdrt. xxi. 116.

Fruit, above the medium size, three inches wide, and two inches and tliree quarters high ; roundish, irregular, and angular on the sides, the ribs of which extend from the base even to the eye. Skin,, smooth, clear pale waxen-yellow, streaked and dotted with lively crimson, intermixed with orange, on the side next the sun. Eye, large and open, with long segments, which are a little reflexed, and set in an irregular, angular, and knobbed basin, which is sometimes lined with fine delicate russet, and dotted round the margin with minute russety dots.
Stalk, very short, but sometimes three quarters of an inch long, set in a deep and angular cavity. Flesh, white, crisp, very juicy, with a rich, vinous, and powerful aromatic flavor ; and if held up between the
eye and the light, with the hand placed on the margin of the basin of the eye, it exhibits a transparency like porcelain.
This is a very valuable apple of the first quality, and is equally desirable either for the dessert or culinary purposes ; it is in use from October to December.
The tree is hardy, a vigorous and healthy grower, and generally a good bearer. It has somewhat of a pyramidal habit of growth, and attains a considerable size.
Though not of recent introduction, this beautiful and excellent apple is comparatively but little known, otherwise it would be more generally cultivated. It is one of the favorite apples of Germany, particularly
about Hamburgh, and in Ilolstein, where it is said to have originated in the garden of the Duke of Augustenberg, at the Castle of Grafenstein.
The original tree is said to have been in existence about the middle of the last century. According to Diel some suppose it to be of Italian origin.

Robert Hogg, British Pomology

Gravenstein Early:

Gravenstein Red: