Allington Pippin

Dessert or Cooker

UK; raised before 1884 by nurseryman Thomas Loxton, Lincs. King of the Pippins X Cox's Orange Pippin. Originally South Lincoln Pippin. Renamed 1894 by G Bunyard, after his nursery near Maidstone, Kent. Inroduced 1896. RHS FCC 1894 as Brown's South Lincoln Beauty.

Mellows to intense fruit drop or pineapple taste, although still fairly sharp by Christmas, but needs good years. Very sharp and bitter-sweet in November but cooks well, keeps shape with good flavour; sweet, not bland.

Widely planted commercially and in gardens in early 1900s, but proved 'cold and sour in the Midlands', suffered storage problems and in decline by the 1930's. Still often found in gardens.