Fearn's Pippin
syn. Bealing's Pippin, Bennet's Defiance, Clifton Nonesuch, Clifton Nonsuch, de Fearn, Espagne, Fearn's Pepping, Fearn's Pippin Apple, Fearns Pippin, Ferris Pippin, Ferris' Pippin, Florence Pippin, Gearn's Pippin, Pepin de Fearn, Pomme d'Espagne, Pomme de Fearn, Smiling Mary, Thomason, Vermilion d'Espagne, Vermillion d'Espagne, Vermillon, Vermillon d'Espagne, Waterloo
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in Mr Bagley's garden at Fulham, London before 1780. Fruits have firm, juicy flesh with a slightly acid and pleasant aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 64.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 51.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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