THE CASTLE FIPEIHo 
HE name, “Castle Pippin,” we adopt to com- 
memorate the origin of this Apple on a now 
peaceful spot, on the brink of the Severn, where 
Pomona has supplanted Mars, and horticulture 
cari'ies life to man, where warfare introduced 
but death. Barbarism brings the one, civili- 
zation the other. Urso d’Abbitot came to England in the train 
of William the Conqueror, and built a castle at Worcester, under 
the veiy shadow of its venerable cathedral. Its cathedral still 
stands, a monument of piety, daily encompassing the worshippers 
of one ever-living God. Its castle, rased from the earth, almost 
forgotten, its existence unneeded by the present generation. 
Thus have changes been wrought in our mutable state of exist- 
ence, working out the purposes of insciutable Providence. But, 
to our immediate subject. This Apple was raised on the former 
site of Worcester Castle, by Mr. Thomas Eaton, a bookseller, of 
Worcester, who advanced himself by integrity and industry, 
purchased the remains of the castle, levelled its ruins and its 
hill, and now enjoys the peaceful occupation of cultivating its 
site. Who will not but acknowledge that he is in a greater 
