56 THE BOOK OF THE APPLE 



are well provided for. A few of the best apples then 

 available are Margil, King of the Pippins, Ribston 

 Pippin, Cox's Orange Pippin, Allington Pippin, Scarlet 

 Nonpareil, and Adam's Pearmain. Cox's Orange Pippin 

 and Ribston Pippin are too well known, and their first- 

 rate qualities too well recognised, to need many words 

 of recommendation. The first-mentioned has been for 

 many years, and still is, admitted to be the best flavoured 

 apple in cultivation. It succeeds either as a standard or 

 a bush, and should, if possible, be planted in a good 

 warm soil. In poor or heavy land, not thoroughly 

 drained, it is liable to prove somewhat disappointing. 

 Ribston Pippin Apple is also a variety of long standing 

 and great merit. It obtained its name from Ribston 

 Park, Yorkshire, now the residence of Major Dent. 

 The following short account of its history is preserved 

 there : " Sir Henry Goodricke being at Rouen in 

 1709, procured some fine flavoured apples, the pips of 

 which he sent to Ribston. Three of them grew, but 

 only one tree proved worth keeping, viz. The Ribston 

 Pippin. The trunk of the old tree was blown down 

 about 1828. Our present tree is a sucker from the old 

 roots, and therefore true." Some growers have an 

 idea that this grand old variety is predisposed to 

 canker, but we have not found it so, providing that 

 trees are obtained upon the Paradise Stock and planted 

 in ground free from stagnant moisture. 



Allington Pippin is a comparatively new apple, for 

 whose introduction, in 1896, we are indebted to Mr 

 George Bunyard of Maidstone. We have found it to be 

 an excellent apple, of medium size, somewhat similar to 

 Cox's Orange, but more conical. It is a reliable 

 cropper, thriving either as a bush or as a standard, and 

 the flavour is very good. Adam's Pearmain is a fruit of 

 most distinct appearance, true cone-shaped, with a hand- 

 some spotted skin, and has a brisk, pleasant flavour. 



