KEDDLESTONE PIPPIN.
ippeling, Kedlistones (Beschrijving der vruchtsoorten [Description of fruit varieties], third series, N°. 181, page 132).
Kedlistones Pippin.
Keddleston Pippin (HOGG, the Fruit Manual, 3rd ed., page 26).
Keddlestone Pippin (thomas rivers, Catalogue of the Fruit Trees, 1865).
The variety was imported from England and, judged by the name, of English origin; it is a newer variety, not yet described by downing and the German pomologists. Our Description of fruit varieties used an incorrect spelling of the name and has been corrected here.
SHAPE: attractive, regular, sometimes a bit rounder towards the eye than in our illustration.
SIZE: fourth grade.
EYE: small, half closed, sometimes closed, with small, pointed sepals, in a very shallow basin, surrounded by little folds and spots of russeting.
STALK: 8 - 15 mms, woody, in a narrow, shallow cavity with greenish grey russeting; the shortest stalks hardly project from the cavity.
The COLOUR of the smooth, very thin skin is yellowish green, with grey-green lenticels and small russeted figures; at the sunside more golden yellow, with rust-coloured or red lenticels.
The FLESH is creamy white with green veins, very fine, crispy, juicy, winy, with a particular, attractive aroma. The core is medium sized, with big, perfect, black-brown pips.
TIME OF USE: December - March. First grade for dessert.
The TREE grows moderately and forms an attractive pyramid. The twigs are rather long and thin, brownish purple, with olive-green at the shadow side, almost entirely covered with a thin grey-white skin, with grey-white lenticels of variable size, sometimes small and round, sometimes oblong and bigger; the buds are blunt, sometimes thick, placed on flat ribs; the shoots are thin, violet-brown with some green, very woolly at the top; leaf stalks are 10 - 15 mms long; leaves are oval with a small, slightly twisted tip, regular and shallow serrating; not seldom one finds leaves which tend to form a tip halfway at one of the sides. Recommended as pyramid or espalier on Paradijs rootstock.