Peasgeed's Nonsuch.

Manawatu Herald, Issue III, 10 March 1891, Page 3

Peasgeed's Nonsuch.

In the year 1858 a girl, still at ■chool, planted five pips of a good apple, sort unknown, in a garden at Grantham, ift Lincolnshire. They all at £rC#ew, b\it* four V them died ;W<S fifth coiitiimecl to groW; Seven years afterwards the erstwhile schoolgirl became a wife, and moved to Stamford. Having a sort ot affection for the tree she had watched seven years — though it had never had a flower on it — she took it with her, and it was planted in a garden on the banks of the Welland Sf|fw-lying garden partially fiSb'fled fejßry -winter. Here for seven years ! more the tree grew without flowering, and then it did flower and bore seven apples, which were shown in 1872 in the Marquis of Exeter's park, the famous " Burghley Park by Stamford town " of Lord Tennyson's " Lord of Burghley." Here they attracted so much attention that five of them were sent up to the Apple Committee of the Royal Agricultural Society, and Dr Hogg gave an illustration in the Journal of Horticulture. Mr Brown, nurseryman, of Stamtord, gave £20 for the right to cut grafts, out of which £20 was bought a gold watch and chain which those who remember the splendid apple at the recent Guildhall Fruit Show may be interested to know Mrs Peasgood wears to this day — and long may she live to do so— for the girl gardener married a Mr Peasgood, of Stamford ; and the now famous apple is known throughout the length and breadth of the land as " Peasgood's Nonsuch." — -Horticultural Times.