BLENHEIM PIPPIN
Apple
USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
BLENHEIM PIPPIN
Origin and History
The origin of BLENHEIM PIPPIN is said to have been a garden at Woodstock. In consequence of this origin, the variety has been indifferently called the Woodstock Pippin and the Blenheim Pippin, the latter of which is adopted as the most common name. It appears in the Horticultural Society Fruit Catalogue as no. 81, and is also known in the nurseries as Blenheim Orange.
Tree
Wood is erect and purplish gray, with an ash-colored, deciduous, downy epidermis. At the lower end of yearling shoots, the wood is nearly smooth, with a few pale specks.
Leaves are middle-sized, coarsely serrated, rather irregularly twisted, and downy beneath.
BLENHEIM PIPPIN is a great bearer as a dwarf tree grafted on an English Paradise or Doucin stock.
Fruit
Size and Form: BLENHEIM PIPPIN is among the largest kind of table apples. The fruit is roundish, broadest at the base, approximately 2½ inches deep and 3 inches across the widest part.
Calyx/Eye: The eye is very hollow and open, but slightly angular.
Skin: Yellowish, stained on the sunny side with dull red, among which streaks of deeper color are intermixed.
Flesh and Flavor: Yellow, breaking texture, sweet, juicy, extremely pleasant, and high-flavored.
Core and Seeds: Not described in source.
Season and Storage
BLENHEIM PIPPIN ripens in the middle of November and will occasionally keep until the following March.
Uses
Described as a fine variety and among the largest kind of table apples.
Subtypes and Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
- Lindley, Pomologia Britannica Vol. 1 (1841) — listed as THE BLENHEIM PIPPIN
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— 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.