Borovitsky Apple
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Origin / History
Of Russian origin. Sent to the Horticultural Society from the Taurida Gardens near St. Petersburgh by Mr. Martin Miller Call in 1824. Lindley figures it as worthy of a place beside the Sugar Loaf Pippin, also Russian, since so few of the commonly cultivated early summer apples possess any merit and it is very desirable to substitute some new kinds.
Tree
Wood flexuose, dull grayish-brown purple, slightly downy, and marked sparingly with cinereous specks. Leaves large, ovate oblong, of rather a thin substance, doubly and acutely crenated, shining above, slightly pubescent beneath; petioles long, deeply tinged with purplish red; stipules smooth, linear-lanceolate.
Fruit
Size: Middle-sized.
Form: Roundish, rather angular.
Stem: About an inch long, inserted in a deep and rather wide cavity.
Cavity: Deep and rather wide.
Calyx: Eye seated in rather a large cavity; surrounded by a few small plaits.
Basin: Rather large, with a few small plaits about the eye.
Skin: Rather transparent. Color pale green on the shaded side, sometimes broken by a silvery appearance of the epidermis; on the sunny side striped with crimson red on a ground of paler red.
Dots: Not described in source.
Flesh and flavor: Flesh white, firm, juicy; flavor sweet, brisk, subacid, very pleasant.
Core and seeds: Not described in source.
Season
Ripens in the middle of August; keeps well for about three weeks.
Uses
Not described in source.
Subtypes / Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
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— John Lindley, Pomologia Britannica, Vol. 1 (1841)THE BOROVITSKY APPLE.
Borovitsky Apple. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. p. 110.
So few of the early summer Apples which are commonly cultivated possess any merit, that it is very desirable to substitute some new kinds. The Sugar Loaf Pippin has already been figured in this work; and the present, also of Russian origin, has been found worthy of a second place. It was sent to the Horticultural Society from the Taurida Gardens near St. Petersburgh, by Mr. Martin Miller Call, in 1824: it ripens in the middle of August, and keeps well for about three weeks.
Wood flexuose, dull grayish-brown purple, slightly downy, and marked sparingly with cinereous specks.
Leaves large, ovate oblong, of rather a thin substance, doubly and acutely crenated, shining above, and slightly pubescent beneath; petioles long, and deeply tinged with purplish red; stipules smooth, linear-lanceolate.
Fruit middle-sized, roundish, and rather angular; eye seated in rather a large cavity, and surrounded by a few small plaits. Stalk about an inch long, inserted in a deep and rather wide cavity.
Colour pale green on the shaded side, sometimes broken by a silvery appearance of the epidermis; on the sunny side, striped with crimson red on a ground of paler red. Skin rather transparent. Flesh white, firm, juicy, with a sweet, brisk, subacid, very pleasant flavour.