Plate III. 
3. COURT OF WICK. 
[Syn. : Fry's Pippin ; Golden Drop ; Knightwick Pippin ; Phillips Reinette ; Wood's Huntingdon ; 
Weeks' Pippin ; Yellow Pippini\ 
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This variety is said to have originated at Court of Wick, in Somersetshire, and to have been 
raised from a pip of the Golden Pippin. 
Description .—Fruit; below medium size, roundish ovate, regular and handsome. Skin ; 
when fully ripe of a fine clear yellow, with bright orange, which sometimes breaks out in a faint red 
next the sun, and covered all over with russety freckles. Eye ; large and open, with long acuminate 
and reflexed segments, set in a wide, shallow and eyen basin. Stalk ; short and slender, inserted in 
a smooth and even cavity, which is lined with thin russet. Flesh; yellow, tender, crisp, very juicy, 
rich and highly flavoured. 
It is one of the best and most valuable dessert apples. The rich and delicious flavour of the 
fruit is not inferior to that of the Golden Pippin. In season from October to March. 
The tree attains the middle size, is very healthy and hardy, and bears abundantly. It will 
succeed on almost every soil, and is not subject to attacks of blight and canker. In some places, as 
on the Hastings Sand, the colour of the fruit becomes a fine clear orange with a somewhat carmine 
cheek on the side next the sun ; the same rich tint is observed in some localities in Herefordshire. 
This richness of colour with its fine flavour, is doubtless the cause of this fruit being attacked with 
such avidity by birds and insects. On the sunny side of the tree it is often an exception to find a 
Court of Wick apple untouched by these marauders. 
