ORB’S AFFILE 
t llE first account whicli we have of the above- 
mentioned fmit, occurs in the second volume 
of the Transactions of the Plorticultural Society, 
communicated by Mr. Salisbuiy. It is there 
, stated, that John Ord, Esq., of Purser’s Green, 
' near Fulham, about the year 1780, raised a 
seedling tree from a Newtown Pippin, imported from America. 
This tree becoming unhealthy, Mr. Ord’s sister-in-law raised a 
seedling from its fruit, which we may say, in the phraseology 
of biographers, is “the subject of our present memoir.” This 
descendant of the far-famed Newtown Pippin, is not so pleas- 
ing a fmit to the eye as its progenitor, but it inherits most of 
its good qualities when judged of by the palate. 
It has the eye sunk in a naiTow, moderately deep, basin, 
which is formed within by iiTegular ribs or plaits. Its stalk 
