Norfolk Royal
The apple is a romantic fruit with a romantic history, even if we do not go back to the forbidden fruit or the apple of discord. And the romance is not over. I saw the other • day for the first time a good quantity of a variety that bids fair to be the source of a new industry to Norfolk. The story is now common property. A single tree was found at North Walsham, bearing a very brilliant fruit with a very sweet taste. No one could name it ; and the only theory of its origin was that it sprang from a pip brought over by exiled Huguenots in the great migration to East Anglia. Four enterprising fruit-growers took off the old tree as many grafts as was wise, and now possess thousands of trees, of which the fruit is in great demand. The apple is named " Norfolk Royal," and it seems likely to secure the fame of a Jonathan, to which it has some likeness, if not the fame of the incomparable fruit which Mr. Cox grew from the seed of Ribston Pippin.
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