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THE RIBSTON P IPPIN.
Ribston Pippin, o f all English Collections.
Traver’s Apple. Hort. Trans, vol. Hi. p . 324.
Formosa Pippin. Ibid. vol. Hi. p. 322.
Glory of York, o f some.
Instead of any account of our own, we present
our readers with the following extract from some
MSS. papers, furnished to us by Mr. Thompson, to
whom this Work already owes so much of the best
part of its matter : —
It may be deemed .needless to describe an
Apple so well known throughout the country as one
of the highest excellence, and perhaps not to be
surpassed. But as it is one in regard to which
many are particularly interested, it may not be improper
to give the following account, which proves
its origin more conclusively. A very interesting
statement is to be found in the Transactions of the
Horticultural Society, Vol. III. p. 140, by Sir Henry
Goodricke, bart., on whose estate, at Ribston, near
Wetherby, in Yorkshire, the original tree was growing
in 1818. “ Traditionary accounts,” he observes,
“ are all we have to guide us in the history of this
tree. It is said, that some Apple seeds, or pips,
were brought from Rouen, in Normandy, about 130
years ago ; ” (now upwards of 140), that they were
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