Blenheim Pippin
Apple
USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
BLENHEIM PIPPIN
Origin / History
BLENHEIM PIPPIN is said to have originated in a garden at Woodstock, in consequence of which it has been indifferently called the Woodstock and the Blenheim Pippin, the latter being adopted as the most common name. Listed as Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 81; the nurseries call it Blenheim Orange.
Tree
Wood erect, purplish gray, with an ash-colored, deciduous, downy epidermis; at the lower end of the yearling shoots nearly smooth, with a few pale specks. Leaves middle-sized, coarsely serrated, rather irregularly twisted, downy beneath. A great bearer as a dwarf tree grafted on an English Paradise or Doucin stock.
Fruit
Size: Among the largest kind of table apples; about 2½ inches deep and 3 inches across the widest part.
Form: Roundish, broadest at the base.
Stem: Not described in source.
Cavity: Not described in source.
Calyx: Eye very hollow and open, but slightly angular.
Basin: Not described in source.
Skin: Yellowish, stained on the sunny side with dull red, among which streaks of deeper color are intermixed.
Dots: Not described in source.
Flesh and flavor: Yellow, breaking, sweet, juicy, extremely pleasant, and high-flavored.
Core and seeds: Not described in source.
Season
Ripens in the middle of November, and will occasionally keep till the following March.
Uses
Table apple.
Subtypes / Variants
Not described in source.
Other
The accompanying drawing was made in Mr Kirke's Nursery in November last.
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
- Lindley, Pomologia Britannica Vol. 1 (1841) — listed as THE BLENHEIM PIPPIN
Nursery Catalog Sources
Found in 2 catalogs (1845–1855) from Massachusetts
- Winship's Nursery (Brighton Nurseries , operated by the Winship family), Brighton (Boston) , Massachusetts — 1845
- Joseph Breck & Co. , Boston , Massachusetts — 1855
View original book sources (1)
— John Lindley, Pomologia Britannica, Vol. 1 (1841)THE BLENHEIM PIPPIN.
Blenheim Pippin. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 81. Blenheim Orange ......} of the Nurseries. Woodstock Pippin ......}
The origin of this fine variety is said to have been a Garden at Woodstock, in consequence of which it has been indifferently called the Woodstock and the Blenheim Pippin, the latter of which is adopted as the most common name.
It is among the largest kind of table apples, ripens in the middle of November, and will occasionally keep till the following March. A great bearer as a dwarf tree grafted on an English Paradise, or Doucin Stock.
Wood erect, purplish gray, with an ash-coloured, deciduous, downy epidermis; at the lower end of the yearling shoots nearly smooth, with a few pale specks.
Leaves middle-sized, coarsely serrated, rather irregularly twisted, downy beneath.
Fruit roundish, broadest at the base, about 2½ inches deep, and 3 inches across the widest part. Eye very hollow and open, but slightly angular. Skin yellowish, stained on the sunny side with dull red, among which streaks of deeper colour are intermixed. Flesh yellow, breaking, sweet, juicy, extremely pleasant, and high-flavoured.
The accompanying drawing was made in Mr Kirke's Nursery in November last.