Winter Pippin
AppleWinter Pippin
Origin / History
An old Eastern variety.
Tree
Tree vigorous, upright, spreading, productive. Young shoots dark grayish reddish brown.
Fruit
Size: Fruit medium.
Form: Roundish conic, slightly ribbed.
Stem: Stalk rather short.
Cavity: Not described in source.
Calyx: Calyx partially closed.
Basin: Not described in source.
Skin: Greenish yellow, rarely with a shade of dull red in the sun.
Dots: Not described in source.
Flesh and flavor: Flesh white, tender, juicy, pleasant, mild subacid. Good.
Core and seeds: Core rather small.
Season
January to March.
Uses
Not described in source.
Subtypes / Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
USDA Nomenclature (1905)
From W.H. Ragan, Nomenclature of the Apple, USDA Bulletin No. 56
Possibly identical with Geneva. Downing, p. 189.
Nursery Catalog Sources
Found in 2 catalogs (1901–1913) from Illinois
- Benjamin Buckman (personal inventory) , Farmingdale , Illinois — 1901
- Benjamin Buckman (personal inventory) , Farmingdale , Illinois — 1913
View original book sources (1)
— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)Winter Pippin. Autumn Pippin
An old Eastern variety. Tree vigorous, upright, spreading, productive. Young shoots dark grayish reddish brown.
Fruit medium, roundish conic, slightly ribbed greenish yellow, rarely with a shade of dull red in the sun. Stalk rather short. Calyx partially closed. Flesh white, tender, juicy, pleasant, mild subacid. Good. Core rather small. January to March.