Bullocks Pippin

Apple

Bullocks Pippin

Origin and History

A native of Burlington County, New Jersey. The name derives from the family of Bullock, though it is more generally distinguished by the vulgar name Sheep-nose, from a supposed resemblance between the form of the apple and that part of a sheep. It is also sometimes called the Long Tom. Coxe (1817) considered it one of the finest apples in New Jersey for the autumn and early winter months.

Tree

The tree is handsome, with a top that is round and regular, and foliage that is dark and luxuriant. It is a great and constant bearer.

Fruit

Size: Below middling.

Form: Heart-shaped, pointed towards the crown — a form suggestive of a sheep's nose, which accounts for its common name.

Stem: Short.

Skin: Yellow, inclining to russet.

Flesh: Yellow, rich, juicy, tender, and sprightly.

Season and Uses

An autumn and early winter apple. Excellent as a cider apple. When baked, Coxe (1817) considered it the best apple he was acquainted with.

[NOTE: The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture (1914) entry reads as a coded tabular record — L re yr B b i 4* 12* 1* — without the legend key reproduced in the source text. The codes cannot be reliably decoded and are omitted to avoid introducing incorrect detail. The (3) designation may indicate a quality class. The entry's presence in the 1914 encyclopedia confirms the variety remained in cultivation nearly a century after Coxe's description.]

Book Sources

Described in 2 period pomological works

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NO. 40. BULLOCKS PIPPIN, OR SHEEP NOSE.

This is one of the finest apples in New-Jersey, in the autumn and early winter months. In size it is below middling—the skin is yellow, inclining to a russet; the flesh is yellow, rich, juicy, tender and sprightly; it is an excellent cider apple, and when baked, is the best apple I am acquainted with—the form is that of a heart, pointed towards the crown; the stalk short; the tree handsome, the top round and regular, the foliage dark and luxuriant—a great and constant bearer—it is a native of Burlington county New-Jersey—it is sometimes called the Long Tom; it derives one of its names from the family of Bullock, but is more generally distinguished by the vulgar name of Sheep-nose, from a supposed resemblance between the form of the apple and that part of a sheep.

— William Coxe, A View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees (1817)

Bullock's Pippin (3).. L re yr B b i 4* 12* 1*

— Granville Lowther (ed.), Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture (1914)

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