sentences:  Hogg believed that the variety 'Winter Pearmain' was both "the original of all the Pearmains" and the oldest recorded variety of apple in England, with evidence it was cultivated in Norfolk in c.1200.Other sources suggest that the name "pearmain" was in fact originally used for a type of pear, and was first applied to apples only during the 16th century.It has been suggested the word was derived from Old French "pearmain" and possibly ultimately from Latin "parmensia" "of Parma", though the latter is probably folk etymology.