PLATE XXV. 
i. RIBSTON PIPPIN. 
[Syn : Glory of York ; Travers Pipping 
The original tree of this celebrated Apple grows in the park at Ribston Hall, near 
Knaresborough, Yorkshire, on the banks of the river Nidd ; and if tradition is to be believed, the 
pip from which it grew came from Normandy. The following account of its origin is supposed to 
have been written by Sir John Goodricke, who died in 1789 :—“ Three pippins (pips ?) were sent 
to Sir Henry Goodricke from Normandy, about the year 1709, only one of them succeeded, and 
from that tree all the Ribston Pippins have descended.” Another account states that “Sir Henry 
Goodricke, father of the last Sir John Goodricke (owner of Ribston) being at Rouen in Normandy, 
preserved the pips of some fine-flavoured apples and sent them to Ribston. They were sown, and 
the young trees in due time planted in the Park (now George Garth). Out of seven trees planted, 
five proved decided” . . . (illegible—probably “failuresand are all”) . . . “dead. The other 
two proved good apples. They are” . . . (illegible—probably “bearing”) . . . “yet. They 
never were grafted, and one of them is the celebrated original Ribston Pippin tree.” And, lastly, 
in an undated letter from Miss Clough it is stated, “ The Ribston Pippin came from Normandy 
about the beginning of the last century. My great grandfather, Sir Henry, had a friend abroad 
who sent him over three pippins (pips) in a letter, which being sown, two came to nothing. The 
present old tree at Ribston is the produce of the third, and has been distributed into all parts.” 
The original tree stood until the year 1810, when it was blown down by a violent gale of 
wind. It was afterwards supported by stakes in a horizontal position, as is shown by the woodcut 
vignette which has been kindly lent to the Club by the Editor of the Gardener s Chronicle to appear 
