much known in Miller's time, otherwise he would 

 have mentioned it in his work. 



I have not seen it mentioned by any foreign 

 author earlier than 1813, when it was described by 

 Dr. Diel, in Vol. XI. of his Pomology. He had the 

 sort from Uellner, in 1804, and mentions concerning 

 it as follows : — ^ *' I find the name of this fine Apple 

 no where wiitten except in William and Joseph 

 Kirke's Catalogue of Fruit-trees. Except there, it 

 is in no other English Pomology that I know of." 

 From the account which Dr. Diel gives of it (and 

 he describes it very accurately), it would appear 

 that it grew with him rather small. 



It has never been discovered among any of the 

 foreign collections in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden, nor among the specimens of foreign Apples 

 received by the Society. Although it had not been 

 sufficiently proved to have originated at Ribston, the 

 above circmnstance would at least have greatly con- 

 firmed the supposition of its being no foreign sort, 

 and consequently added to the probability of its 

 belonging to this country. 



Its synonym, or rather what has been proved 

 to be synonymous, having the name of Traver's 

 Apple, is undoubtedly nothing else. 



The Formosa Pippin, although mentioned in the 

 Transactions, Vol. III. p. 322, as having a more 

 melting flesh than the Ribston, and not keeping so 

 long, is found not to be different, when grown under 

 equal circumstances. If it was said that the For- 

 mosa Pippin was a Ribston, improved by the stock 

 on which it was worked — still this made it nothing 



