Fall Pippin
- Description
- The Holland Pippin indeed much resembles Fall Pippin, but it differs from it in being in season from mid-August to mid-autumn and in being more roundish and less flattened, and in having a short, thick stem which is not exerted. Known as Cathead incorrectly.
- Flesh quality
- moderately firm, rather fine, tender, very juicy, agreeable subacid, somewhat aromatic, very good
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- thin, smooth
- Skin color
- green, yellow, blushed
- Sizes
- very large, large
- Shape
- round, ribbed, oblate, oblong, uniform, truncate, conical
- Keeping quality
- When grown under favorable conditions and properly handled some portion of the crop may keep till midwinter or later, but even carefully selected fruit cannot be relied upon to hold in common storage till December first without considerable loss.
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- September
- Eating season ends in
- January
- Also known as
- American Fall
- Autumn Pippin
- Cathead
- Cat Head
- Cobbett's Fall
- Cobbett's Fall Pippin
- Concombre Ancien
- De Rateau
- D'Espange
- Episcopal
- Golden Pippin
- Holland Pippin
- Philadelphia Pippin
- Pound Pippin
- Pound Royal
- Prince's large Pippin of N. Y.
- Reinnete Blanche d'Espagne
- Summer Pippin
- Van Duym's Pippin
- Van Dyn's Pippin
- York Pippin
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 61.