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Downton Pippin
type: Cider, Dessert
synonyms: Downton Golden Pippin, Knight's Golden Pippin, Elton Pippin, Elton Golden Pippin, Saint Mary's Pippin. Sometimes called the Golden Pippin , but this is actually the pollen parent of the Downton Pippin.
summary: A Victorian era dessert apple that makes an excellent sweet and intensely aromatic sauce. In baking, it keeps its shape. Also used for cider.
identification: Small, round-flattened tending to round-conic. Green skin maturing to gold yellow. Some russet patches or veining at the crown and in the eye cavity, abundantly strewn with brown lenticels. The calyx is large and partly open, set in a shallow, wide and ribbed basin. The stem is short and set in a shallow cavity which is lined with russet.
characteristics: Flesh is cream coloured, crisp, juicy and sharp. Cidery.
origins: Downton Pippin was raised from Isle of Wight Pippin (European) crossed with Golden Pippin by Thomas Andrew Knight at Elton Manor, Ludlow, Shropshire (U.K.) and named after Downton Castle in Shropshire. First exhibited in 1806.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, spur bearer. Upright spreading. Produces heavy, biennial crops.
cold storage: Keeps well for up to three months.
harvest: Ready for harvest starting in the middle of the fourth period.
juice_classification: Sweet-sharp
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 11
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
sg: 1
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