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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20643, 15 February 1929, Page 7

A famous Ribston Pippin apple tree in England has fallen down, blown down by the gale in Ribston Park, where it had stood for 200 years. It was the father of the tribe and had seen its seed spread all over the world, wherever there are good 'Englishmen to love good apples. Like the seed of the righteous man extollled in Ecclesiasticus, its seed endureth and men speak forth its praise. But the old tree itself, a sturdy ’native of Yorkshire is not quite done with yet. Its roots still bold fast and sure in Yorkshire soil and frohi the shattered stump a little shoot still holds a gallant head above ground. The head gardener at Ribston Hall thinks that in time this slender offspring may bear as many apples as the old tree did.