Apple variety Ribston Pippin

Описание: Ribston Pippin is an apple of great genetic value. It was the parent of Cox's Orange Pippin which is often considered the best of all apples for flavour, and the grandparent of the MANY excellent apples which have been raised from Cox seedlings.

Ribston Pippin was raised in 1707 in Yorkshire, allegedly from a pip brought over from Normandy. It is said to have very high vitamin C levels. Season is October to December. It has the fault of tending to drop just before it is ripe, but this year we have somehow managed to catch it just in time. Julia and I picked 26 boxes from 10 trees, our boxed hold about 15kg of fruit, so about 32 kg or 65 pounds of fruit from each of these trees. The trees are 21 years old on M26, originally from Blackmoor nurseries. They have ben doing very much better since we cut out the row of trees either side of them (originally planted 9 feet apart, much too close as it turned out) to give them more room.

Great colour when ripe, great flavour, somewhat irregular occasionally knobbly shape. If you are going to try to raise a new apple from a pip, which I do not recommend trying unless you really know what you are doing, this would be a very good starting point. This apple is of FIRST RANK importance for historical and genetic reasons and MUST NOT be allowed to go extinct.