234 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



There are three or four very fine larch trees in the grounds at 

 Ribston now, which are probably the very ones sent in answer 

 to this appeal. Sir Henry Goodricke was the introducer of the 

 well-known Ribston pippin. He had three pippins sent him 

 from Normandy about the year 1707, one of them grew up, and 

 was the original Ribston Pippin tree ; it was blown down in 1839, 

 but a sucker from the root is now a fair-sized tree, and still bears 

 occasional fruit. 



