JULY. 
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upon. A great portion of the letter is quite illegible from wear, the 
following being the only portion that can be deciphered:—“ My grand¬ 
father, Sir Henry Goodrick, being at Rouen, in Normandy, in ye year 
1707, he eat an Apple of very superior flavour, and saved ye seeds, 
which he sent to Ribston, where they were sown, and ye produce 
planted in ye park. Out of ye trees planted five proved bad and two 
proved good. They are growing yet, and never were grafted, and one 
of these trees is ye celebrated Ribston Pippin, which,” &c., &c. What 
became of the other “ good ” Apple which is here spoken of I cannot 
ascertain anything further than that it died and was cut down many 
years ago, therefore I fear that it is quite lost. The old steni of the 
Ribston Pippin was blown down, as is shown in the cut, during a 
