Reinette Pippin
- From
- France
- Description
- Known to have been in cultivation for more than a hundred years in France, as noted by Beach in 1905, but is little known in the United States.
- Flesh quality
- firm, tender, rather crisp, moderately coarse-grained, subacid, rich, juicy
- Flesh color
- white, yellow tinged
- Skin quality
- moderately thick, tough, smooth
- Skin color
- green, yellow, white, blushed
- Sizes
- very large, large, above medium
- Shape
- round, irregular, unequal sides, oblate, unsymmetrical, angular, elliptical, conical
- Keeping quality
- uncertain keeper in storage
- Uses
- dessert, culinary
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 1 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1905), 281.