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XXIX. An Account of the original Tree of the Ribston 

 Pippin, still existing on the Estate of Sir Henry Good- 

 ricke, Bart., at Ribston, near Wetherby. Communicated 

 by Sir Henry Goodricke, in a Letter to Frederick 

 Lumley, Esq. ; and laid before the Society by George 

 Henry Noehden, LL. D. F. L. S. fyc. Vice Secretary. 



Read April 7, 1818. 



It will, no doubt, be interesting to the Society to receive 

 some information concerning the original tree of the Ribston 

 Pippin* which is justly considered as one of the most 

 valuable apples now in our gardens and orchards. Through 

 the exertions of Lady Milner, an active and intelligent 

 friend to Horticulture, I am favoured with the following 

 authentic particulars from Sir Henry Goodricke, Bart, 

 on whose estate, at Ribston, near Wetherby, in Yorkshire, 

 that tree exists. From no better source could such intelli- 

 gence have been derived, than from the actual owner, who 



* Mr. Knight, the President of the Society, had expressed in one of his 

 Papers, in the Transactions (Vol. II. p. 254,) a wish to know something of the 

 history of this tree ; and it will be satisfactory to him, not only to have that wish 

 gratified, but also to see his notion respecting the origin of this tree confirmed. 

 Mr. Knight's words are these: " I am not by any means satisfied that the 

 original tree of the Ribston Pippin is not now growing in England ; and that the 

 seed from which the tree sprang, and not the tree itself, came from France : for 

 I have never seen any plate of it, nor description of any apple very like it, in any 

 foreign catalogue. A cutting from the root of the supposed original tree, might, 

 I conclude, readily be obtained, and no effort to preserve so valuable a variety 

 ought to be omitted. v 



