34 HISTORY OF FRUITS. 



first carp to England, and thus, at one time, furnished 

 our orchards and our ponds with the rarest variety of 

 each kind. 



Pippins take their name from the small spots or pips, 

 that usually appear on the sides of these apples. The 

 golden pippin is a native of Sussex, and is said to have 

 been first reared at Parham Park, which is also situated 

 on the north side of the South Downs. The Dutch ac- 

 knowledge it to be an English apple in their catalogue of 

 fruits, where it is called the " Engelsche goud Pepping." 

 The French call it " Pippin d'Or," which is a translation 

 of the English name. Worlidge notices the golden pip- 

 pin, and says, " it is smaller than the orange-apple, else 

 much like it in colour, taste, and long keeping." Evelyn 

 observes in his Diary, 22d October, 1685, that "at 

 Lord Clarendon's seat at Swallowfield, Berks, there is an 

 orchard of 1000 golden and other cider pippins." 



Catherine, Empress of Russia, was so fond of this 

 apple, that she was regularly supplied with it from Eng- 

 land ; and in order that she might have it in the greatest 

 perfection, each apple was separately enveloped in silver 

 paper before it was packed. 



Our earliest apple is ripe at the end of June, hence 

 called June eating, and now corrupted into Juniting and 

 Jenniting. 



The Ribston pippin is a native of Ribston Park, York- 

 shire. Hargrave, in his History of Knaresborough, (p. 

 216,) says, "This place is remarkable for the produce of 

 a delicious apple, called the Ribston Park pippin. The 

 original tree was raised from a pippin brought from France, 

 from which tree such numbers have been propagated, 

 that they are now to be met with in almost every orchard 

 in this and many other counties." The old tree is yet 

 standing: and in the year 1787 produced six bushels of 

 fruit. Mr. Speechly says, " he has seen the tree within 



