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AppleDay (Royal Pippin)
Origin/History
A native of Kentucky. The variety was contributed by Reuben Ragan (Warder, 1867).
Tree
Not described in source.
Fruit
Size and Form: Large, round, somewhat conic, regular in outline.
Skin: Surface smooth, yellow, striped, splashed, and mottled with bright red (Downing: "bright red"; Warder: "carmine"). Dots numerous, gray, and large.
Stem: Medium length, clubbed.
Cavity: Deep, acute, green.
Calyx: Small, closed.
Basin: Shallow, folded.
Flesh/Flavor: Flesh yellowish white (Warder) or white (Downing), firm, breaking, granular (Warder). Flavor subacid. Quality: Warder rates it "good"; Downing rates it "poor."
Core/Seeds: Core wide, pyriform, slightly open, clasping. Seeds numerous, pointed, angular, dark.
Season
January.
Uses
Kitchen use.
Subtypes/Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Warder notes the variety is "not destined to take a very high rank."
Book Sources
Described in 2 period pomological works
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— John A. Warder, American Pomology: Apples (1867)Day.
ROYAL PIPPIN.
From Reuben Ragan. Fruit large, round, somewhat conic, regular; Surface smooth, yellow, striped, splashed, mottled, carmine; Dots numerous, gray, large.
Basin shallow, folded; Eye small, closed.
Cavity deep, acute, green; Stem medium, clubbed.
Core wide, pyriform, slightly open, clasping; Seeds numerous, pointed, angular, dark; Flesh yellowish white, firm, breaking, granular; Flavor sub-acid; Quality good; Use, kitchen; Season, January. Not destined to take a very high rank.
— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)Day. Royal Pippin. A native of Kentucky. Fruit large, round, somewhat conic, yellow striped, splashed, and mottled with bright red. Flesh white, firm, breaking, subacid. Poor. January. Kitchen use.