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duced three plants. These were planted in the park, 

 and one of them proved to be the apple in question. 

 Lowe, the son, was afterwards foreman under the 

 famous Launcelot Brown, at Hampton Court; and 

 subsequently a nurseryman at Hampton Wick, where 

 he was much respected as a pomologist, and for his 

 abilities in planting gardens, as executed at Earl 

 Spencer's at Wimbledon, and many other places in 

 the neighbourhood. 



It may be remarked as unaccountable, that such 

 an apple as the Ribstone pippin should have been so 

 long overlooked by nurserymen, and by such writers 

 as Miller, who appears to have been wholly unac- 

 quainted with it, otherwise he certainly would have 

 named it in his lists. 



From the circumstances alluded to by Hargrave, 

 and reported by Lowe, junior, the author thinks it 

 probable that the spice apple might have been car- 

 ried from England to France, and from thence the 

 fruit or seeds were received at Ribstone Hall, and 

 there sown. This supposition reconciles the different 

 reports of Hargrave and Lowe, and also accounts 

 for the apparent afl&nity of the two apples. 



106. Blenheim, or Woodstock Pippin. — Keeps good 

 from November to March. This is a very handsome 

 useful apple ; large, flat at the stalk, which is short 

 and thick. The eye is large and hollow; the colour 

 yellowish-green, marbled with different shades of red 

 on the exposed side. The pulp is firm, juice plen- 

 tiful, and of a fine acid flavour. The tree is healthy, 

 and grows vigorously, forming a standard of the 

 first class. From its vigorous growth it is not fruit- 



