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Blanche de Leipsic. See Borsddrffer. 



BLAND'S JUBILEE {Jubilee Pippin). — Fruit, large, three inches 

 and a quarter wide, and two inches and three quarters high ; round, 

 narrowing a little towards the eye, and obscurely ribbed. Skin, dull 

 yellow tinged with green, but changing to clear yellow as it ripens ; 

 marked with russet in the basin of the eye, and strewed over its 

 surface with large russety dots. Eye, small and closed, with long 

 acuminate segments, set in a narrow, deep, and even basin. Stalk, 

 short, inserted in a moderately deep cavity. Flesh, yellowish, tender, 

 crisp, juicy, sugary, and perfumed. 



An excellent apple, either for culinary purposes or the dessert. It 

 is in use from October to January. 



This was raised by Michael Bland, Esq., of Norwich. The seed was sown on 

 the day of the jubilee which celebrated the 50th year of the reign of George III., 

 in 1809, and the tree first produced fruit in 1818, It is not a variety which is met 

 with in general cultivation, but deserves to be more extensively known. 



Blenheim Orange. See Blenheim Pippin. 



BLENHEIM PIPPIN {Blenheim Orange; Woodstock Pippin; 

 Northwick Pippin ; Kempster's Pippin). — Fruit, large, being generally 

 three inches wide, and two and a half high ; globular, and some- 

 what flattened, broader at the base than the apex, regularly and 

 handsomely shaped. Skin, yeEow, with a tinge of dull red next the 

 sun, and streaked with deeper red. Eye, large and open, with short 

 stunted segments, placed in a round and rather deep basin. Stalk, 

 short and stout, rather deeply inserted, and scarcely extending beyond 

 the base. Flesh, yellow, crisp, juicy, sweet, and pleasantly acid. 



A very valuable and highly esteemed apple, either for the dessert or 

 culinary purposes, but, strictly speaking, more suitable for the latter. 

 It is in use ff om November to February. 



The common complaint against the Blenheim Pippin is that the tree 

 is a bad bearer. This is undoubtedly the case when it is young, being 

 of a strong and vigorous habit of growth, and forming a large and 

 very beautiful standard ; but when it becomes a little aged, it bears 

 regular and abundant crops. It may be made to produce much earlier, 

 if grafted on the paradise stock, and grown either as an open dwarf, or 

 an espalier. 



This valuable apple was first discovered at Woodstock, in Oxfordshire, and 

 received its name from Blenheim, the seat of the Duke of Marlborough, which is 

 in the immediate neighbourhood. It is not noticed in any of the nursery cata- 

 logues of the last century, nor was it cultivated in the London nurseries till about 

 •the year 1818. 



The following interesting account of this favourite variety appeared some years 

 ago in the Gardener's Chronicle : — " In a somewhat dilapidated corner of the 

 decaying borough of ancient Woodstock, within ten yards of the wall of Blenheim 

 Park, stands all that remams of the original stump of that beautiful and justly 

 celebrated apple, the Blenheim Orange. It is now entirely dead, and rapidly 

 falling to decay, being a mere shell about ten feet high, loose in the ground, and 

 having a large hole in the centre ; till within the last three years, it occasionally 

 sent up long, thin, wiry twigs, but this last sign of vitality has ceased, and what 



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