TH E B L EN H E IM P IP P IN .
Blenheim Pippin. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 81.
Blenheim Orange i
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Woodstock P ip pm j
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The origin of this fine variety is said to have been
a Garden at Woodstock, in consequence of which it
has been indifferently called the Woodstock and the
Blenheim Pippin, the latter of w hich is adopted as
the most common name.
I t is among the largest kind of table apples,
ripens in the middle of November, and will occasionally
keep till the following March. A great bearer
as a dwarf tree grafted on an English Paradise, or
Doucin Stock.
Wood erect, purplish gray, with an ash-coloured,
deciduous, downy epidermis; at the lower end of the
yearling shoots nearly smooth, with a few pale
specks.
Leaves middle-sized, coarsely serrated, rather
irregularly twisted, downy beneath.
Fruit roundish, broadest at the base, about
2 i inches deep, and 3 inches across the widest part.
Eye very hollow and open, but slightly angular.
Skin yellowish, stained on the sunny side with dull