almost universal experience of orchardists would contradict MR. INGLEBY'S
theory. The "Ross Nonpareil," a well-known and valuable fruit, was, like
the Ribston Pippin, singular to say, raised from Normandy seed. The fact
has been often told to me by a gentleman who died several years since, at a
very advanced age, in the town of New Ross, co. Wexford. He perfectly
remembered the original tree standing in the garden attached to the endowed
school in that town, where it had been originally planted by Sir John
Ivory, the son or grandson of a Cromwellian settler, who raised it from
seed, at the commencement of the eighteenth century; and who left his own
dwelling-house in New Ross to be a school, and endowed it out of his
estates. The tree has long since decayed, but its innumerable _grafted_
successors are in the most flourishing condition. The flavour of this apple
lies chiefly in its rind.

Y. S. M.

_Golden Tooth_ (Vol. viii., p. 382.).--I recollect very well, when a boy,
trying to keep my tongue out of the cavity from whence a tooth had been
extracted, in the hope of acquiring the golden tooth promised to me by my
old nurse, and after several attempts having succeeded in refraining for
four-and-twenty hours (the period required to elapse), and no gold tooth
appearing, I well remember my disgust and disappointment. This {338} folk
lore (query _lure_) was, and I believe still is, in full force in the south
of Ireland, and probably elsewhere.

Y. S. M.

_Cambridge Mathematical Questions_ (Vol. ix., p. 35.).--These are so far
put forth "by authority" as the publication in the Cambridge _Calendar_,
and the two local newspapers goes; a collection of the Senate House Papers
for "Honours" from 1838 to 1849, has also been published, arranged
according to subjects, by Rev. A. H. Frost, M.A., of St. John's College.

P. J. F. GANTILLON.

_Lichfield Bower or Wappenschau_ (Vol. ix., p. 242.).--In answer to MR.
LAMONT'S question, I have to inform him that in this city a similar
_wappenschau_, or exhibition of arms, has been annually maintained, with a
short intermission, from time immemorial. The Court of Array held on Whit
Monday was anciently commenced, according to Pitt, by the high constables
of this city, attended by ten men with firelocks, and adorned with ribbons,
preceded by eight morris-dancers, and a clown fantastically dressed,
escorting the sheriff, town clerk, and bailiffs from the Guildhall to the
Bower at Greenh