King of the Pippins:
Fruit medium sized; ovate or conical, regularly and handsomely shaped. Skin, greenish yellow, with a blush of red next the sun, and marked with a little rough brown russet. Eye, large, and partially open, with long and broad segments, which are connivent, but reflexed at the tips, set in a shallow and undulating basin. Stalk, a quarter of an inch long, just extending beyond the base. Flesh, white with a yellowish tinge, firm, crisp, very juicy and sugary, with a rich vinous flavor.
This is one of the richest flavored early dessert apples, and unequalled by any other variety of the same season ; it is ripe in the end of August, and beginning of September (northern hemisphere).
This is the original, and true King of the Pippins, and a very different apple from that generally known by the same name. See Golden Winter Pearmain. I suspect this is the King Apple of Rea.
Robert Hogg,
British Pomology
