Yellow Ingestrie
Apple
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Yellow Ingestrie
Origin/History
Yellow Ingestrie is an old English variety, raised about 1800 by Thomas Andrew Knight from seed of the Orange Pippin pollinated with Golden Pippin. It has been propagated pretty extensively in the Northwest (United States), and though too small for a profitable market fruit, it has been found desirable on account of its early and abundant productiveness. An old variety still shown at the Iowa State Fair from the central district at the turn of the twentieth century.
Tree
Growth slender; fertile. Leaf rather small, roundish, oval, broadly serrate. Bearing habit early and abundant.
Fruit
Size: Small; approximately 2 inches by 1¼ inches (Bunyard). Described as "too small for an apple and too large for a crab" (Hansen).
Form: Sources give somewhat varying form descriptions. Warder: globular, truncated, regular. Downing: roundish oblate. Hansen: very regular, oblate, cylindrical, flattened at both ends. Bunyard: square-rounded, regular.
Stem: Long and slender (Warder, Hansen); slender, set in a shallow, even cavity (Bunyard).
Cavity: Warder describes the cavity as acute and brown. Hansen describes it as regular, obtuse, with considerable light stellate russet. Bunyard describes it as shallow and even.
Calyx/Eye and Basin: Warder: basin wide, shallow, folded; eye medium, open; segments reflexed. Hansen: basin smooth, wide, abrupt, regular; calyx closed; segments erect convergent. Bunyard: eye almost closed, in a shallow wide basin.
Skin: Surface smooth (Warder) and unctuous (Hansen). Color a clear lemon yellow / clear bright gold color / clear waxen yellow, without red (Downing), though Hansen notes a warm, deeper yellow cheek. Dots minute (Warder); very obscure, numerous, minute, white (Hansen).
Flesh/Flavor: Flesh whitish yellow (Warder) to yellow (Hansen, Bunyard); tender and delicate with plentiful juice when freshly gathered from the tree (Downing); fine grained, firm, crisp, juicy (Hansen); breaking, juicy (Warder); crisp, spicy (Elliott); firm, sweet (Bunyard). Flavor sub-acid (Warder). Quality: barely good (Warder); good (Downing); excellent (Hansen); not valued (Elliott).
Core/Seeds: Core medium, oval, regular, closed (Warder) / open (Hansen), clasping; cells ovate or obovate, entire, axile; tube funnel-shaped; stamens median (Hansen). Seeds few, large, pale (Warder); few, flattened, large, pointed (Hansen).
Season
Late August through September into October. Bunyard: dessert, end-August to September. Hansen: August, September, ripens in succession. Warder: September, October. Downing and Elliott: October.
Uses
Dessert (Bunyard); cooking (Warder). Too small for a profitable market fruit, but valued for early and abundant productiveness.
Subtypes/Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Bunyard notes that "Summer Golden Pippin" is sometimes applied in error to this variety but is in fact distinct.
Book Sources
Described in 5 period pomological works
Nursery Catalog Sources
Found in 3 catalogs (1900–1911) from England
- George Bunyard & Co. , Royal Nurseries, Maidstone, Kent , England — 1900 — listed as Yellow Ingestre
- Central Experimental Farm , Dominion Department of Agriculture, Agassiz, British Columbia (under test; Bulletin No. 3, Second Series) — 1900 — listed as Yellow Ingestre
- James Veitch & Sons , Ltd., Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, London (also Coombe Wood, Langley, and Feltham) , England — 1911 — listed as Yellow Ingestre
View original book sources (5)
— John A. Warder, American Pomology: Apples (1867)Yellow Ingestrie.
This old English variety has been propagated pretty extensively in the Northwest, and though too small for a profitable market fruit, it has been found desirable on account of its early and abundant productiveness.
Fruit small, globular, truncated, regular; Surface smooth, lemon yellow; Dots minute.
Basin wide, shallow, folded; Eye medium, open; Segments reflexed.
Cavity acute, brown; Stem long, slender.
Core medium, oval, regular, closed, clasping; Seeds few, large, pale; Flesh whitish yellow, breaking, juicy; Flavor sub-acid; Quality barely good; Use, cooking; Season, September, October.
— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)Yellow Ingestrie.
Fruit small, roundish oblate, clear bright gold color, without red. Flesh tender and delicate, with a plentiful juice when freshly gathered from the tree. Good. October.
— F.R. Elliott, The Western Fruit Book (1865)Yellow Ingestre. Foreign. Small, clear yellow, crisp, spicy, not valued. October.
— N.E. Hansen, A Study of Northwestern Apples (1902)Yellow Ingestrie— Originated in England about 1800 by Thomas Andrew Knight, from seed of the Orange Pippin, pollinated with Golden Pippin—Fruit small, very regular, oblate, cylindrical, flattened at both ends; surface unctuous, a clear waxen yellow with warm, deeper yellow cheek; dots very obscure, numerous, minute, white; cavity regular, obtuse, with considerable light stellate russet; stem long; basin smooth, wide, abrupt, regular; calyx closed; segments erect convergent. Core open, clasping; cells ovate or obovate, entire, axile; tube funnel-shaped; stamens median; seeds few, flattened, large, pointed; flesh yellow, fine grained, firm, crisp, juicy, excellent. August, September. Ripens in succession. An old variety still shown at the Iowa State Fair from the central district. Too small for an apple and too large for a crab.
— E.A. Bunyard, A Handbook of Hardy Fruits (1920)YELLOW INGESTRIE. Her. Pom. P. 2. F., Ingestrie jaune ; G., Gelber Peppin von Ingestrie. (Early Pippin, Summer Golden Pippin (error), White Pippin.) Dessert, end-August to September, small, 2 by 1¼, square-rounded, regular. Colour, golden-yellow. Flesh, firm, yellow, sweet. Eye, almost closed, in a shallow wide basin. Stem, slender, in a shallow, even cavity. Growth, slender ; fertile. Leaf, rather small, roundish, oval, broadly serrate. Origin, raised by Mr. T. A. Knight (Orange Pippin x Golden Pippin), about 1800. Summer Golden Pippin is distinct q.v.
Yellow Transparent : see White Transparent.