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APPLE. 



attention to extirpate the insect as soon as it appears, 

 or rather to prevent its seating itself by timely appli- 

 cation of a remedy or preventive hereafter to be 

 mentioned. The Ribstone pippin takes well on any 

 of the three stocks ; but the fruit from the crab 

 stock are always superior. 



This favourite apple is brought to great perfection 

 in the north of England, and in Scotland by being 

 planted against walls. By such means the flavour is 

 heightened, and the size so increased, that when 

 one grown in the garden of Mulgrave Castle was 

 shown to the late Mr. Grainge, of Covent Garden, 

 he actually did not know the fruit — so much was it 

 altered in dimension and appearance. 



Much has been written relative to the discovery 

 and early history of this famous apple, the substance 

 of which is as follows : — Hargrave, in his History 

 of Knaresborough, speaks of the place as remark- 

 able for the production of a delicious apple called 

 the Ribston Park pippin, the original tree of which 

 was raised, in the year 1688, from the seed of a 

 pippin brought from France. The author saw the 

 original in August 1789 ; it then was bearing a fair 

 crop of fruit, but the tree was evidently declining. 

 About twenty years afterwards it was partly blown 

 down by wind, which hastened its final decay ; and 

 probably, ere now, it has entirely disappeared, but 

 not without leaving a numerous progeny behind. 



A son of the gardener at Ribston Hail, of the 

 name of Lowe, who raised the apple, reported, that 

 his father sowed seeds of the spice apple, which pro- 



