Owner's comments
Wyken Pippin (Warwickshire Pippin; Arley; Girkin Pippin) (taken from: http://chestofbooks.com/gardening-horticulture/Robert-Hogg/The-Fruit-Manual-Great-Britain/Apples-Part-201.html)
Fruit, below medium size, two inches and a half broad, and two inches hjgh; oblate, even and handsomely shaped. Skin, smooth, pale greenish yellow in the shade, but with a dull orange blush next the sun, and sprinkled all over with russety dots and patches of delicate russet, particularly on the base. Eye, large and open, set in a wide, shallow, and plaited basin. Stamens, median; tube, conical. Stalk, very short, imbedded in a shallow cavity. Flesh, yellow, tinged with green, tender, very juicy, sweet, and richly flavoured. Cells, obovate; axile, closed.
A valuable and delicious dessert apple of first-rate quality; in use from December to April. The tree is a healthy and good grower, and an excellent bearer.
This variety is said to have originated from seed saved from an apple which Lord Craven had eaten while on his travels from France to Holland, and which was planted at Wyken, about two miles from Coventry. According to Mr. Lindley, the original tree, then very old, was in existence in 1827, and presented the appearance of an old trunk, with a strong sucker growing from its roots.