Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

nafex - [NAFEX] ribston pippin

nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: list@ginda.us
  • To: NAFEX <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] ribston pippin
  • Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 08:05:45 -0400

I went to the Tower Hill harvest festival yesterday, and they were offering antique apples from their collection at 50 cents apiece, so we tried a few. The big hit with my family was the Ribston Pippin, which was crunchy, juicy, and almost too sweet. I don't think I've ever had such a sweet apple before.

Does anyone know why this isn't a commercial variety? It didn't look especially ugly or anything, and the twig of Ribston that I have grafted to my crab apple doesn't seem especially disease prone. (None of my grafts have fruited, yet. Perhaps they don't get enough sun?) Tower Hill Botanic Garden is probably in zone 5 (maybe 6?) and it's close the the heart of Massachusett's apple country, so I know it grows under "normal" apple growing conditions. It's true that it was so sweet that is wasn't really "refreshing", but it was certainly pleasant to eat, and I would 'ha thought there'd be a market for all that sugar.

Ginda





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page