CORNISH PINE

Apple

CORNISH PINE

Origin and History Raised at Exminster, Devon, from a pip of Cornish Gillyflower.

Tree Moderately fertile. Leaf large, long, dark, upfolded, held downward, and finely serrate.

Fruit Size: Medium to large, 2¼ by 2¾ inches. Form: Oblong, conical, very irregular. Skin: Golden-yellow with thick broken stripes. Flesh: Firm, yellow, sweet, aromatic.

Season December to February.

Uses Culinary.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

Bunyard, A Handbook of Hardy Fruits (1920)

Nursery Catalog Sources

Found in 1 catalog (1900)

Central Experimental Farm , Dominion Department of Agriculture, Agassiz, British Columbia (under test; Bulletin No. 3, Second Series) — 1900 — listed as Red Ribbed Greening

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CORNISH PINE. (Red Ribbed Greening.) Culinary, December to February, medium to large, 2¼ by 2¾, oblong, conical, very irregular. Colour, golden-yellow, with thick broken stripes. Flesh, firm, yellow, sweet, aromatic. Moderately fertile. Leaf, large, long, dark, upfolded, down held, finely serrate. Origin, raised at Exminster, Devon, from a pip of Cornish Gillyflower.

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

Red Ribbed Greening