Type: Cider, Dessert, Jelly, Pie

Synonyms: American Plat, American Plate, Balgone Golden Pippin, Balgowan, Balgowan Pippin, Balgown, Balgown Pippin, Barford, Barrod Pippin, Bayforbury, Bayford, Bayfordbury Golden Pippin, Elford Golden Pippin, English Golden Pippin, English Reinette, Fry’s Golden Pippin, Herefordshire Golden Pippin, Latour’s Golden Pippin, Little Pippin, London Golden Pippin, Milford Pippin, Milton Golden Pippin, Old Golden Pippin, Russet Gold Pippin, Russet Golden Pippin, Small Golden Pippin, True Golden Pippin, Waiter’s Golden Pippin, Warter’s Golden Pippin

Identification: Small to medium, intermediate conic tending to oblong. Vaguely ribbed. Skin base colour is golden yellow with russet patches extending out from the blossom basin. Large russet lenticels with smaller pearly lenticels inset among them. The stem is short, stout and set in a deep cavity. The calyx is medium size, partly open and set in a shallow basin.

Characteristics: Flesh is yellow, firm, very juicy and sweet. Tangy with a intense fruity flavour.

Uses: Holds its shape in apple pies. Once extensively used for making apple jelly. Also often used for making cider.

Origins: Most likely originated at Parham Park, near Arundel, Sussex, (U.K.) before the 1600s. It was described by John Parkinson in his 1629 edition of "Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris" and was well known by the 1700s. George Washington ordered the variety for his garden at Mount Vernon, Virginia, but it failed to flourish in the U.S.A. Widely grown commercially and in gardens in the early 1800s.

Cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading. Bears fruit on spurs.

Progeny: Court of Wick , Downton Pippin , Pitmaston Pineapple , Yellow Ingestrie

Mutations: Scarlet Golden Pippin

Cold Storage: Keeps for up to five months in storage.

Vulnerabilities: Very resistant to scab.

Harvest: Ready for harvest in the first half of the fifth period.

Pollination Group: B

Pollination Peak: 11

Ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.

Cold Storage Weeks: 20

Brix: 18

Harvest Period: 5