PLATE LXV. 
4. ISLE OF WIGHT PIPPIN. 
[Syn : Isle of Wight Orange ; Orange Pippin; Ponline dOrange ; Engelse Oranje Appel .] 
This is a very old variety, and no doubt the Orange Apple of Ray and Worlidge. It is 
supposed by some to have been introduced from Normandy to the Isle of Wight, where it was first 
planted in the garden at Wrexall Cottage, near the Undercliff, and it was growing there in 1817. 
There are several other varieties of apples known by the name of “ Orange ” and “ Orange Pippin 
but they are all inferior to this. 
Description. —Fruit: small, two inches wide, by an inch and a half deep; globular. Eye: 
slightly sunk, with broad, acute segments of the calyx. Stalk : very short. Skin : yellowish, golden 
grey, with a russety epidermis, highly coloured with orange and red next the sun. Flesh : firm and 
juicy, with a rich aromatic flavour. 
A dessert apple of first-rate quality, in season from September to January. “ It is also 
valuable,” says Mr. Knight, “ as a cider apple, and its juice has the high specific gravity of 1074.” 
The tree is hardy and healthy, but does not attain a large size. It succeeds well on the 
paradise stock, and is best grown as an open dwarf, or espalier. It bears well under all circumstances. 
