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pips which were brought from Rouen, about the year 

 1688, and sown in the garden at Ribston Hall, near 

 Knaresborough, in the county of York. A tree from 

 these was planted out in the park, which grew to a very 

 large size, and formed the subject of the present article. 



I visited it in 17&9, an d found it in a. very healthy 

 state : it was, however, in a violent gale, in 1810, 

 thrown down ; and, five years afterwards, still continued 

 to bear fruit, although lying on the ground. 



It has been doubted by some, whether the tree at 

 Ribston Hall was an original from the seed. The fact 

 of its not being a grafted tree, has been satisfactorily 

 ascertained by Sir Henry Goodricke, the present pro- 

 prietor, by causing suckers from its root to be planted 

 out, which have set the matter at rest, that it was not a 

 grafted tree. One of these suckers has produced fruit 

 in the Horticultural Garden at Chiswick. 



156. ROYAL PEARMAIN. Reds Flora, 1665. 

 No. 16. 



Herefordshire Pearmain. Hart. Soc. Cat. No. 757. 



Parmain Royal. Knoop. Pom. p. 71 t. 12. 



Parmain Royal de longue duree. Ib. p. 131. 



Parmain double. Ib. 



Engelsche Konings of King's Pepping. Ib. 



Fruit above the middle size, oblong, and somewhat 

 conical, about two inches and a half deep, and two inches' 

 and three quarters in diameter, slightly angular on its 

 sides. Eye rather small, open, with a reflexed calyx, seated 

 in a narrow, shallow, russetty basin, scarcely marked by 

 plaits. Stalk half an inch long, slender, rather deeply in- 

 serted, protruding just beyond the base. Skin dull, pale 

 yellowish green, interspersed with grey russetty specks, 

 especially on the sunny side, where it is tinged with a 

 soft brown, and marked with a few narrow broken 

 stripes. Flesh pale greenish yellow, tender, crisp. 



