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Fearn's Pippin
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in Mr Bagley's garden at Fulham, London before 1780. Fruits have firm, juicy flesh with a slightly acid and pleasant aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Bealing's Pippin, Bennet's Defiance, Clifton Nonesuch, Clifton Nonsuch, de Fearn, Espagne, Fearn's Pepping, Fearn's Pippin Apple, Fearns Pippin, Ferris Pippin, Ferris' Pippin, Florence Pippin, Gearn's Pippin, Pepin de Fearn, Pomme d'Espagne, Pomme de Fearn, Smiling Mary, Thomason, Vermilion d'Espagne, Vermillion d'Espagne, Vermillon, Vermillon d'Espagne, Waterloo
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 51.00mm 2
- Width
- 64.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1945 - 186
- Accession name
- Fearn's Pippin
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019