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The 'Sturmer Pippin' is a dessert apple cultivar, believed to be a 'Ribston Pippin' and 'Nonpareil' cross.
'Sturmer Pippin' is recorded as being presented to the Horticultural Society (later Royal Horticultural Society) by Ezekiel Dillistone in 1827. The apple takes its name from the village of Sturmer, Essex.
This apple is medium-sized, and has a bright green skin becoming greenish to yellow and flushed red. A good picking time is mid-November to late November . One of the best English keeping apples, 'Sturmer Pippin' became widely grown and exported from Tasmania and New Zealand from the 1890s.
'Ribston Pippin' is a triploid cultivar of apples, also known by other names including 'Essex Pippin', 'Beautiful Pippin', 'Formosa', 'Glory of York', 'Ribstone', 'Rockhill's Russet', 'Travers', and 'Travers's Reinette'.
This apple was grown in 1708 from one of three apple pips sent from Normandy to Sir Henry Goodricke of Ribston Hall at Knaresborough, Yorkshire; the original trunk did not die until 1835. It then sent up a new shoot and, on the same root, lived until 1928.
The 'Ribston Pippin' is one of the possible parents of 'Cox's Orange Pippin'.
The apple skin is a yellow, flushed orange, streaked red with russet at the base and apex. The yellow flesh is firm, fine-grained, and sweet with a pear taste. Irregularly shaped and sometimes lopsided, the apple is usually round to conical in shape and flattened at the base with distinct ribbing. Weather conditions during ripening cause a marbling or water coring of the flesh, and in very hot weather, the fruit will ripen prematurely.
Pippin, Peppin, Pepin or Pipin may refer to:
Pippin, Peppin, and Pepin (Latin: Pippinus, Pipinus, and Pepinus) are variants of a single Frankish given name borne by the following figures in the Carolingian family that ruled the Frankish Empire in what is now France and the western parts of Germany in the Middle Ages:
Frederick V (German: Friedrich V.; 26 August 1596 – 29 November 1632) was Elector Palatine (1610–23), and, as Frederick I (Czech: Fridrich Falcký), King of Bohemia (1619–20); for his short reign he is often nicknamed the Winter King (Czech: Zimní král; German: Winterkönig).
Frederick was born at the Jagdschloss Deinschwang (a hunting lodge) near Amberg in the Upper Palatinate. He was the son of Frederick IV and of Louise Juliana of Orange-Nassau, the daughter of William the Silent and Charlotte de Bourbon-Monpensier. An intellectual, a mystic, and a Calvinist, he succeeded his father as Prince-Elector of the Rhenish Palatinate in 1610. He was responsible for the construction of the famous Hortus Palatinus gardens in Heidelberg.
In 1618 the largely Protestant estates of Bohemia rebelled against their Catholic King Ferdinand, triggering the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. Frederick was asked to assume the crown of Bohemia. He accepted the offer and was crowned on 4 November 1619. The estates chose Frederick since he was the leader of the Protestant Union, a military alliance founded by his father, and hoped for the support of Frederick's father-in-law, James VI of Scotland and I of England. However, James opposed the takeover of Bohemia from the Habsburgs and Frederick's allies in the Protestant Union failed to support him militarily by signing the Treaty of Ulm (1620). His brief reign as King of Bohemia ended with his defeat at the Battle of White Mountain on 8 November 1620 – a year and four days after his coronation.
Apple variety Sturmer Pippin, late October
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Picking this late winter variety from East Anglia. Sturmer Pippin does best in a dry climate with long summers, this year it has performed very well for us. It might have been possible to leave on the tree another week or 2, but strong winds are forecast and I am going away for 4 days so picking today. The fruit has acquired a very good colour and was coming off the tree easily. These apples are like Granny Smith in sharpness and texture but IMO with better flavour. They will be stored as cool as possible and we expect to be eating and/or selling them from November to February. A good choice for a late winter apple especially if you have warmer climate.
First recorded in 'The Gardeners Chronical' of 1847, where readers were told that a plant of Sturmer Pippin had been presented to the Royal Horticultural Society in 1827, where it was listed as a first rate variety in the Society's Catalogue of Fruits. Raised by Mr Dillistone, at the village of Sturmer, in Suffolk, south east England. Believed to be a cross between Ribston Pippin and Nonpareil. As an aside, Ribston Pippin is a marvellous apple parent which also gave us Cox's Orange Pippin, which itself became the parent of many lovely apples, including Winter King which I just reviewed, as well as Suntan, Sunset and Kidd's Orange Red. If I ever did try to raise a new apple variety, Ribston Pippin would be one of my starting points due to its track record. But it is still my advice ...
A few thoughts from a sunlit October orchard. All very untidy just now. Harvest almost over, but for this very late apple Sturmer Pippin. Alas, a harmless but cosmetically ugly mould means the crop is unsaleable. Never mind, we'll store them through the winter, a few for our select friend, the rest into a friend's award winning cider.
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Ribston Pippin is a famous, genetically and historically significant apple variety which also looks and tastes excellent. First grown in Yorkshire from a seed brought from Rouen in Normandy, France, in about 1688, as far as my sources can say. That's over 400 years ago. The original tree was grown at Ribston hall, Knaresborough, Yorkshire, and blew down in 1810 but was supported by stakes and continued to fruit until 1835. I find it quite awesome to think that the 20 Ribston Pippin trees in my orchard have all come via grafting from the progeny of that original tree. It is a triploid tree, which usually means (as with triploid apples Bramley and Suntan) strong vigour and potentially difficult pollination. The fruits are liable to suden drop at harvest time according to the books, which ...
raised in Kent in 1886, Cox crossed with Idared, originally named Fiesta. A reasonably heavy cropper and very crisp and juicy, which may need thinning as it sets many fruits. It is a long keeper, but prone to scab-you need to use some fungicide- and flavour is not of the highest quality. Red Pippin is a good 'compromise' apple which is half vinous, half aromatic, with strong fragrance and some people like it a lot, including our daughter Sarah. Julia doesn't like it at all. If we were starting again, we wouldn't include this apple in our collection, we planted it on government advice. Lovely colour if properly tree ripened. Suitable for growing in rstricted forms as it makes a lot of lateral leaders and fruit spurs.
Ribston Pippin is an apple of great genetic value. It was the parent of Cox's Orange Pippin which is often considered the best of all apples for flavour, and the grandparent of the MANY excellent apples which have been raised from Cox seedlings. Ribston Pippin was raised in 1707 in Yorkshire, allegedly from a pip brought over from Normandy. It is said to have very high vitamin C levels. Season is October to December. It has the fault of tending to drop just before it is ripe, but this year we have somehow managed to catch it just in time. Julia and I picked 26 boxes from 10 trees, our boxed hold about 15kg of fruit, so about 32 kg or 65 pounds of fruit from each of these trees. The trees are 21 years old on M26, originally from Blackmoor nurseries. They have ben doing very much better sin...
Another fruit tree pruning tutorial, this time looking at renewal and some spur pruning of an established open centre dwarf apple tree, variety Sturmer Pippin on MM106 root stock.
This is a good quality late keeping apple, hence the original name Winter King. It is mainly sold as Winston, after Sir Winston Churchill the UK WW2 Premier. The name was officially changed in 1944. Its a good backyard apple which was raised in Welford, Berkshire, England in 1920 by William Pope from a cross between Cox's Orange Pippin and Worcester Pearmain. It is very fertile and typically sets far too many fruitlets, requiring hand thinning or else you will get too many too small fruits. I have posted many videos about fruit thinning in the past. The flavour is good, its a firm crunchy apple and should keep well into the New Year. This apple was popular with our customers on tastings, as a result of which I grafted quite a few more than we had originally. A definite recommend as a l...