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Ribston Pippin

The following is a description of the Ribston Pippin given by a leading authority. "Skin pale yellow, russety in the crown and round the stalk, and mottled thinly with dull red on the sunny side. Flesh pale yellow, firm, crisp. Juice, saccharine, with a pungent, rich, and delicious aromatic flavour. A dessert apple from October to April, but it is generally in its greatest perfection when it has been gathered a month or six weeks. The Ribston pippin may be truly said to be one of the best, and certainly is one of the most popular dessert apples of the present day, as well known as the golden pippin and the nonpariel, and a greater number of trees of it are sold by nurserymen throughout England than of both these sorts put together. It was raised, according to traditionary accounts, frome some pips which were brought from Rouen, about the year 1688, and sown in the garden at Ribston Hall, near Knares-borough, in the county of York."