A beautiful and delightful little dessert apple, of first-rate quality, bearing a considerable resemblance to the Golden Pippin; it is in use during September and October.
The tree is large, spreading, and an excellent bearer.
This and the Red Ingestrie, were raised by T. A. Knight, Esq.
400. YELLOW NEWTOWN PIPPIN.—Hort.
- Identification.—[Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 595.
- Synonyme.—Large Yellow Newtown Pippin, [Coxe View]. 142.
Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and two inches and three quarters high; roundish, irregular in its outline, and prominently angled on the sides. Skin, of an uniform deep straw-color, which is rather deeper and richer on the side next the sun, than on the other; and thinly covered with delicate reticulations of fine grey russet, interspersed with several large dark spots. Eye, large and closed, with long linear segments, set in a wide and irregular basin, from which issue several deep russety furrows. Stalk, short, deeply inserted in an uneven and angular cavity, which is partially lined with russet. Flesh, yellowish, crisp, juicy, and slightly sub-acid, but with an agreeable flavor.
A first-rate dessert apple; in use from December to March, and ripens better in this climate than the Newtown Pippin.
401. YORKSHIRE GREENING.—Fors.
- Identification.—[Fors. Treat.] 131. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3, n. 889. [Lind. Guide], 60. [Rog. Fr. Cult.] 60.
- Synonymes.—Coates’s, [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 1, 165. Seek-no-farther, Ibid. 1032. Yorkshire Goose Sauce, acc. [Hort. Soc. Cat.] ed. 3.
- Figure.—[Ron. Pyr. Mal.] pl. xi. f. 2.
Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and two inches and a half high; oblate and slightly angular on the sides. Skin, very dark green; but where exposed to the sun, tinged with dull red, which is striped with broken stripes of deeper red, very much speckled all over with rather bold grey russet specks, and over the base with traces of greyish brown russet. Eye, closed, set in a shallow, irregular, and plaited basin. Stalk, short, stout, and fleshy, covered with grey tomentum, inserted in a wide and rather shallow cavity. Flesh, greenish-white, firm, crisp, and very juicy, with a brisk, but pleasant acidity.