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Ord

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type: Dessert
synonyms: Ord's (also used as a synonym for Yellow Newtown Pippin ), Simpson’s Pippin, Simpson’s Seedling
summary: A refreshing eating apple highly regarded in Victorian England.
identification: Medium size, conic, sometimes oblong and often irregular with prominent ribs and heavy ribbing at the eye. The glossy skin is green, flushed brownish red on the sun exposed face and heavily strewn with rasised, russet lenticels which are often star-shaped. The stem is short and set next to a fleshy swelling.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, crisp and melting. Very juicy, sweet, brisk and aromatic.
origins: First described at length by Richard Anthony Salisbury in Volume II of “Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London” published 1822 in which he recounted that “About forty years ago (1777), the late John Ord, Esq. raised in his garden at Purser’s Cross near Fulham, an Apple tree, from the seed of the New-Town Pippin (see Newtown Pippin ) imported from North America; when this tree began to bear, its fruit, though without any external beauty, proved remarkably good, and had a peculiar quality, namely, a melting softness in eating, so that it might be said almost to dissolve in the mouth... This seedling tree is now of large dimension... but it has of late years been very unhealthy, and scarcely borne any fruit worth gathering, its roots having no doubt penetration into a stratum of unfavourable soil. ”Mrs. Ann Simpson, being as fond of gardening as her late brother-in-law, Mr. Ord... was induced to sow some Pippins of this tree raised by him; and two of the healthiest seedlings of this second generation were planted out to remain, in the kitchen garden... One of these trees began to bear fruit very soon, which is not unlike that of its parent in shape, with a thin skin; and being a very good Apple, grafts of it have been distributed about the Metropolis, with the name of Simpson’s Pippin.” The other pippin apparently also produced fruit several years later, and despite a poor beginning, eventually developed into a fine tasting, large apple not at all like the first seedling. There is no indication in Salisbury’s report of what may have happened to it.
cultivation: Favours areas of fertile soil, shelter from the wind, rain and chill.
cold storage: Keeps about four months in cold storage.
ploidism: Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16

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