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THE BLENHEIM PIPPIN. 



Blenheim Pippin. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 81. 



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Woodstock Pippin S 



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 which is adopted as 

 the most common name. 



It is among the largest kind of table apples, 

 ripens in the middle of November, and will occasion- 

 ally 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\ 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 



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