A culinary apple of the finest quality, and surpassed by none for the purpose to which it is applicable; it is in use from October to January.
This is a valuable apple to the market gardener, and is now extensively cultivated in the Kentish orchards, particularly about Faversham, and Sittingbourne, for the supply of the London Markets. This is a very different apple from the Gooseberry Pippin of Ronald’s Pyrus Malus Brentfordensis.
154. GRANGE.—Knight.
- Identification.—[Pom. Heref.] t. 7. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 295. [Lind. Guide], 106.
- Figure.—[Ron. Pyr. Mal.] pl. xxxii. f. 6.
Fruit, below medium size; roundish, regularly and handsomely shaped. Skin, smooth, of a rich golden yellow, assuming a slight orange tinge next the sun, and strewed with minute russety dots. Eye, large and open, with broad, flat, and reflexed segments; and scarcely at all depressed. Stalk, very short and fleshy, inserted in a wide and shallow cavity, which is tinged with green color and slightly russety. Flesh, yellow, firm, crisp, sugary, and briskly flavored.
A very excellent apple either for the dessert or for the manufacture of cider; it is in use from October to January.
The specific gravity of its juice is 1079.
The tree is perfectly hardy and an excellent bearer.
This is one of the excellent productions of T. A. Knight, Esq. It was raised in 1791, from the seed of the Orange Pippin, impregnated with the pollen of the Golden Pippin, and introduced in 1802. The original tree is at Wormsley Grange, in Herefordshire.