SYNONYME.--Ruckman’s Pearmain, _Hort. Soc. Cat._ ed. 1, 755.
Fruit, medium sized, about two inches and a half in diameter, and the same in height; abrupt pearmain-shaped, irregularly ribbed on the sides, and uneven at the apex. Skin, pale yellow, strewed with patches of russet, and covered with minute russety dots on the shaded side; but deep redish orange, streaked with deeper color, and strewed with minute russety dots on the side exposed to the sun. Eye, large and open, with reflexed segments, and set in a wide, deep, and angular basin. Stalk, slender, three quarters of an inch long, and obliquely inserted, with frequently a fleshy protuberance on one side of it, in a rather shallow cavity, which is lined with green russet. Flesh, yellowish, firm, crisp, very juicy, sweet, and lacking acidity, which gives it a sickly flavor.
An apple of second-rate quality, suitable either for culinary purposes or the dessert; in use from November to March.
The tree is an upright grower and a free bearer, but requires to be grown in good soil.
In America this is esteemed as a cider apple.
IDENTIFICATION.--Evelyn Pom. Raii Hist. ii. 1447. Switz. Fr. Gard. 135. Pom. Heref. Lind. Guide, 16. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 281. Down. Fr. Amer. 112.
SYNONYMES.--Small Golding Pippin, or Bayford, _Meag. Eng. Gard._ 85. Barford Pippin, _acc. Raii Hist._ Russet Golden Pippin, _Lang. Pom._ 130, t. lxxix. f. 5. Balgown Pippin, _Leslie and Anders. Cat._ English Reinette, _acc. 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. Warter’s Golden Pippin, _Ibid._ 394. Balgone Pippin, _Ibid._ 35. Balgone Golden Pippin, _acc. Ibid._ ed. 3. Bayfordbury, _acc. Ibid._ ed. 3. American Plate, _Ron. Pyr. Mal._ 63, pl. xxxii. f. 2. Guolden Peppins, _Quint. Inst._ 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, _Ibid._ 131. Goudeling’s Pepping, _Ibid._ Gulden Pipping, _Ibid._ Engelsche Goud Pepping, _Ibid._ Litle Pepping, _Ibid._ Kœnings Peppeling, _Hort. Soc. Cat._ ed. 1, n. 527.