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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Allington Pippin

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:

Raised by Thomas Laxton in Lincolnshire before 1884. It received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1894 under its original name, ‘Brown’s South Lincoln Beauty’. Renamed in 1894 and introduced by Bunyard of Maidstone in 1896. Once a commercial dessert variety. Fruits have a distinct aromatic flavour.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Offspring in the atlas

Cox's Orange Pippin Allington Pippin
Where Allington Pippin came from. The lines lead to its parents: Cox's Orange Pippin (United Kingdom).

Sources

  1. Allington Pippin (accession 2000 - 016), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (early october); the other names.

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