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Scarlet Pippin
type: Dessert
synonyms: Crimson Beauty (this name also refers to Crimson Beauty which is a mutation of Beauty of Bath ). Crimson Pippin, Crimson Scarlet Pippin, Leeds Beauty.
summary: A Mac-style, fresh-eating apple that originated in Canada during the late 1800s, possibly a seedling of Fameuse.
identification: Medium size, round. The base colour is greenish yellow, over which is a dense pattern of red stripes. The stem is short and ranges from slender to stout, set in wide cavity. The calyx is open, sometimes closed, set in a shallow, often rippled basin.
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm, crisp, yet melting. Well-flavoured, juicy and sprightly.
origins: Originated in Ontario (Canada) during the mid 1800s. Though it was mentioned in the 1895 Annual Report of The Ontario Fruit Grower Association and the 1896 report of the Canadian Horticulture, S.A. Beach best described the apple in Volume II of his "The Apples of New York" (published in 1903). "Originated about 1860 at Lynn, Leeds county, Ontario, near Brockville, where it has been locally grown for some years. Mr. Harold Jones, Maitland, Ont., Experimenter for Ontario for apples in the St. Lawrence river district, has had most to do with bringing this variety to notice as an autumn dessert fruit of value, but the report that the variety originated with his is incorrect." Beach rates it as "An apple of the Fameuse group which closely resembles McIntosh..." but offers no information on its parentage, which suggests that it was likely grown from a pippin.
cultivation: Vigorous, upright, precocious. Produces heavy crops.
cold storage: Keeps two to three months in storage.
harvest: Ready for harvest over a three week span from the beginning of the middle of the fourth period.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
hardiness: 3
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