Ribston Pippin apple

Ribston Pippin identification images

USDA identification images for Ribston Pippin

The identification paintings in the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection span the years 1886 to 1942.

Citation: U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705.

Visitor reviews

• 13 Oct 2018  FrancescaEAST SUSSEX, United Kingdom

  Ribston Apples are mentioned in Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native book 2, chapter 2. They are referred to as being stored in the loft underneath ferns and are being eaten at Christmas
• 02 Oct 2017  Ken ParkesCUMBRIA, United Kingdom

  My wife grafted this four years ago on the recommendation of a friend who has 150 trees on their farm and says it is the customer favourite. The tree was allowed to grow nine apples this year and we have just shared one after dinner. I found it had a strong lemon flavour, quite delicious. It has been a bad year for us sun-wise but I rate it with Laxton Fortune this season.
• 04 Nov 2016  Paul ChambersYORKSHIRE, United Kingdom

  A God of an apple. For me, it improves a week or two after picking.
• 24 Oct 2015  Carter WilkieMASSACHUSETTS, United States

  Well balanced sweetness and acidity, without the more complex, layered flavour of Cox Orange Pippin. Pretty orange skin is easy to chew. Will not stay crisp for long once off the tree.
• 15 Oct 2014  Monique ReedTEXAS, United States

  I want to go back to the 1700's just so I can eat one every day from then until now...
• 26 Sep 2014  Dan KissaneIreland

  I grow over seventy varieties of apple, but this one is my personal favourite. I have only one tree (planted two more last winter) and although I sell all my other apples, I never sell these - I keep them all and eat them myself! It's a magnificent apple, superior (in my opinion) to its much lauded (and rightly so) descendent. Dan, Co Kerry, Ireland
• 06 Oct 2013  Nevil PearceNORTH YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom

  One of my favourites. Aromatic juicy fruit. Best eaten straight from the tree, but will keep until Christmas. I have 3 trees on MM111 rootstock which produce heavy crops in most years. Then it is a Yorkshire variety and I do live near York.
• 12 Sep 2010  GrayWARKWICKSHIRE, United Kingdom

  Does not produce many apples but of good flavour photo - http://www.gb-online.co.uk/plant_centre1/photos/apple-ribston-pippin.jpg
• 16 May 2009  Nynke ZijlstraFRIESLAND, Netherlands

  Hallo Jan, ik kan je aan een Ribston-pippin helpen als je wilt, neem je even contact met me op?
• 05 Nov 2008  Margaret James (Grasby)PORTSMOUTH PO3 6BN, United Kingdom

  I was born 1931 at the lodge of Ribston Park,a village called Walshford and i have had a ribston tree for many years until i moves,the history of ribston hall amzes me because i always thought that major dents family had lived there for hundreds of years,this not being so.
• 17 Oct 2008  Nigel GoldstrawGREAT SHEFFORD, BERKS. U.K., United Kingdom

  This is just about the tastiest apple you will ever find, in fact after a Ribston Pippin very few apple varieties wil satisfy ever again. Next year (2009) I hope to produce a flagon or two of cider from a 'secret' tree.
• 29 Sep 2008  AyamoGERMANY, Germany

  @ Jan van Hoek, every good specialised fruit tree nursery can make you a young tree (e.g. taking a twig of your Ribston an put it on a new root). Or they already have some, Ribston can still be bought although I only know German sources. I would ask the nursery as well which root type they offer (trees get a different size then). Regards.
• 28 Sep 2008  Jan Van HoekOVERIJSSEL, Netherlands

  Since 3 years we live at a former farmhouse with a small orchard. There is a splendid appletree with a plenty of well tasted apples. Now we know it is a Ribston Pippin. The tree is more than 60 years old. We try to get a young one from this tree. Is that possible? Who Knows more about it?
• 30 Jan 2008  Ian BlairLEEDS, United Kingdom

  ribston pippin is named after ribston hall (near knaresborough)were in 1688 ,sir henry goodricke planted 3 pips sent to him from rouen in normandy.2 died but from the 3rd came all the ribston trees in england it contains the highest vitamin c content of any apple
• 01 Nov 2007  Gill WardenENGLAND, United Kingdom

  This variety is also mentioned in the classic 'A month in the country 'by J.l.Carr- a gem of a book don't know about the apple!
• 18 Oct 2007  Jack ConnerCASTRO VALLEY, CA, United States

  A favourite in my little orchard. This is the only apple mentioned by name, I believe, in Wyss's fantasy "The Swiss Family Robinson". The family finds a tree in the hold of that miraculous ship.

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Where to buy trees

The following tree nurseries offer Ribston Pippin apple trees for sale:

• Cummins Nursery
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• Keepers Nursery
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Where to buy fresh fruit

The following orchards grow Ribston Pippin:

United States

• Colorado

  • Gott Bro's Orchard & Produce, L.L.C., Ignacio

• Connecticut

  • Seek No Further Orchard, Hebron

• Georgia

  • Freedom Farms - Apple & Peach Orchard, Chatsworth

• Michigan

  • Alber's Orchard & Cider Mill, Manchester

• Wisconsin

  • Door Creek Orchard, Cottage Grove

United Kingdom

• England - midlands

  • The Vyne, Basingstoke
  • Walsgrove Farm, Worcester

• England - north

  • Pickering Road Community Orchard, Hull
  • Coulton Mill, York
  • Saddleworth Orchard, Saddleworth

• England - south-east

  • Lavenham Brook Vineyard and Orchard, Sudbury

• England - south-west

  • Charlton Orchards, Taunton

Canada

• British Columbia

  • Dragonfly Farm, Salt Spring Island
  • Riley Creek Farm, Lillooet
  • Salt Spring Apple Company, Salt Spring Island

References

• Apples of England (1948)
  Author: Taylor
• Fruit Expert
  Author: Hessayon