Welcome to Orange Pippin

If you are interested in apple varieties, pears, cherries or plums, or orchards where these fruits are grown, you have come to the right place.

Our website is named after England's most famous apple variety - Cox's Orange Pippin - widely regarded as the finest of all dessert apples. 'Pippin' is an old English word derived from the French word for 'seedling', and like many old apple varieties Cox's Orange Pippin was discovered as a chance seedling.

Recent variety reviews

You can add your own comments on any variety page.

• Apple - Cortland

  10 Jan 2025  Thomas Fisher-York, ITHACA, NY

  Although not, strictly speaking, developed by Cornell University (since the Geneva experimental station, where the Cortland was developed, was independent of the university until 1923, and the apple was released in 1915), the Cornell University orchard grows (or at least used to grow) a lot of them. I grew up about a mile from that orchard and as a child ate vast numbers of apples grown there, mostly Mcintosh, Cortland, and Northern Spy. The Cortlands grown there were very good, but a few years ago Cornell closed the retail outlet at the orchard, and I have found that when I buy a bag of Cortlands from a commercial orchard they are usually unripe (although with a lot of red color) and not worth eating. I suppose the idea is to make them keep better, but the result is that (if I didn't know better) I would just think Cortlands a bad variety of apple.

• Apple - Pink Lady

  09 Jan 2025  John Wissinger, JEROME, PENNSYLVANIA 15937

  I bought the Pink Ladies to feed my rabbits and I decided to eat an apple man are they ever good and sweet the rabbits will get few but I'll get many

• Apple - Sturmer Pippin

  04 Jan 2025  Hans Dulfer, Enfield, MIDDLESEX UK

  Found this variety by an old farm house I was working on near Colchester some years back. It was early February with one apple still on the tree. Picked it and ate it: beautiful taste! Didn’t know what it was so asked for some scions, which were grafted at home, now 6yr old oblique cordons. Took me a while as a novice to work out what variety it was but I think I struck gold finding it. Just had one now and it’s amazing.

• Apple - Jonagold

  03 Jan 2025  Kyle Clunies-Ross DaníElsson, REYKJAVíK, HöFUðBORGARSVæðI

  They are the most popular type here in Iceland. Perfect sweetness and acidity balance

• Apple - Braeburn

  27 Dec 2024  Kathleen Meador, KNOXVILLE, IA

  I have been an avid customer buying Braeburn apples from Fareway Grocery in Knoxville, Iowa from 1988-present. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed those very large apples with a sticker from New Zealand. However now since Fareway has been spellings Braeburn with a USA sticker the apple no longer is crisp or tart. It is much smaller and has a mealy mushy texture of an over ripe. When can I do to find the apple of my eye, excuse the pun. I have tried all Fareway other apple types. I don’t believe they carry Jazz. Many of them have very tough skin very difficult to bite or chew. Thanks for the information re: lower quality due to different growing conditions.