The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-11-04
TIE AIBEMARLE PIPPIN.
Richmond Dispatch.

Richmond Dispatch.
Last year there was a failure in tho
Albcrma,lc piprIn crop, but this raj
the orchards have yielded well. The con
scuucn,, /, ,iIut We uca" Oi some 1arm
crs rcc,ivinr almost fabulous sums
from their apple harvcsts.
When the season is propltious tho
pippin orchard pays its owner very
handsome revenue but, alas OF sucL
= a-uis There aic not pVri many. hho
hen, too. it ia not all lands, not all
\lbcrmn,lr lards, even, that Will grow
the perfect pippin. .r
II is only i'm Il limited area in Albcr-
mallc and ad jaccnt Blue Ridge counties
that ihis luscious fruit can be best pro-
duced. The restriction that nature
puts upon its growth, Of cour'c, Il lbs
10 H.. rrcat value. If il could be raised
any and everywhere the market FOR II
would he ovcr-supplicd but. as it IL,
production is never beyond the de-
mand.
London and New York cpicurcs arc
| the chief pulcha crs, and II Is SllJ that
Queen Victoria is never without sup.
DIV Of these apples. But whether thls
be true or not, we DO not know. we
made an clror! years ago to ascertain
if that was fact, and learned that II
the queen orders Il regular annual sup
ply, it is through an English dealer,
not from any Virginia grower. Ger
tain il j, however, that in the long
auo. when Mr.. Stevenson. of NirIinla,
was tn, United States minister to Lon
don, he sent the queen supply oi
these pippns, and received her thanks
for the kindness and praise for the
plppins.
In the course of our enquiries we
also learned, much to our regret, that
the Albcrmarlc pippin was not marx
ctcd IN England under that name, but
undc, another name. OF late, how
ever, an effort has been made to cor
rect this injustice, and last year we OBJ
served that in several Liverpool price,
current publications, under the gen
cral heading of "pippins," "'Nirgin-
las' we've cons, icuoLsly quoted.
Though our name Is sill sounded
A. road, We doubt if we suffer as much
hcrcfl ON us we do from the practice
IF dishonest dealers in this country
ceiling all sorts Of pippins as "Albcr
marie pippius." The consequence of
his rep. chcnsiblc work is that an in-
Icrlor fruit is often palmcd off upon
the public for the genuine, much to
the diScrcdit of the latter.
As luir, an AlhcrmarlG pippln is
wuith as much as an orange. and the
price al which some so-cal!cd Alber-
marie plppinS are offered by retail deal
CrS is in itself Il condemnation of their
GenuincnCSs. But il has often been said
that imila,ior is the s,ncerest liattcry,
AID s" We may congratulate ourselves
that the name of the famous Virginia
apple wnuiI not be used If it were not
known 20 have 4 high staudiug. How
ever, it would not be fair for us Il omit
TO say | ere that some other States have
apples grown in small quantities, as
the Alhrrmarlc plppin is, that com.
maud what are called "fancy" prices.
And in the case Of somc of these the
c!alm Is also set p that they arc "thc
lavoli,c apples Of the quccn.n
Eu 'vnc got th' apple from Asia, ant
we got it from England, aud have de.
| vclonch il TO an extent that "ivcs us
new claim upon the gratitude of til,
mother county. She raises fine ap
pies upon her own soil Canada an,
Australia send her apples in grea
quantities and SO do these Unite,
States hut We tlattcr ourselves lha
the very best she gets are those tha
come from Albcrmallc and from strip
ul land in adjacent counties.