Cambusnethan Pippin

Apple

Cambusnethan Pippin

Origin/History

Raised by Mr. Paton, gardener at Cambusnethan House, about 1750 (Bunyard). A Scotch variety (Downing). It is much appreciated in the North of England, but of no remarkable merit in the South (Bunyard).

Tree

Growth compact and fertile (Bunyard). Leaf roundish, upfolded, undulating, regularly crenate (Bunyard).

Fruit

Size and Form: Medium. Bunyard gives dimensions of 3 inches by 2 inches; form flat, round, and regular. Downing describes the form as roundish.

Stem: Of medium length (Bunyard).

Cavity: Fairly deep (Bunyard).

Calyx: Eye open (Bunyard).

Basin: Very wide and even (Bunyard).

Skin: Ground color pale yellow (Bunyard) or light yellow (Downing), with broad, broken red stripes and flush (Bunyard); Downing describes the striping and shading as crimson and dark red.

Flesh/Flavor: Flesh yellowish and soft (both sources). Downing describes it as juicy and subacid, rating it good to very good. Bunyard describes the flavor as fair.

Core/Seeds: Not described in source.

Season

Downing gives September to December. Bunyard gives October to December.

Uses

Culinary or dessert (Bunyard).

Subtypes/Variants

Not described in source.

Other

Not described in source.

Book Sources

Described in 2 period pomological works

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Cambusnethan Pippin. Winter Red Streak. Watch Apple. A Scotch variety, medium, roundish, light yellow, striped and shaded with crimson and dark red. Flesh yellowish, juicy, subacid. Good to very good. September, December.

— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)

CAMBUSNETHAN PIPPIN. Culinary or dessert, October to December, medium, 3 by 2, flat, round, regular. Colour, pale yellow with broad, broken red stripes and flush. Flesh, soft, yellowish, fair flavour. Eye, open in a very wide even basin. Stem, of medium length in a fairly deep cavity. Growth, compact; fertile. Leaf, roundish, upfolded, undulating, regularly crenate. Origin, raised by Mr. Paton, gardener at Cambusnethan House, about 1750. It is much appreciated in the North of England, but of no remarkable merit in the South.

— E.A. Bunyard, A Handbook of Hardy Fruits (1920)

Watch Apple Winter Red Streak Kentucky Red Streak Walbridge