Apple varieties, United Kingdom
New Rock Pippin
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised at Barnwell, Cambridge, by William Pleasance. It was first exhibited in 1821. Fruits have firm, crisp, fine flesh with a sweet, vinous and aromatic flavour.
Sources
- New Rock Pippin (accession 1944 - 003), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october); the other names.
