Tallow Pippin Apple

Also known as Lowell, Greasy Pippi. Fruit rather large. Clear yellow with waxy surface. Flesh a little coarse, very juicy, sprightly, subacid, and desirable for either dessert or culinary uses. It is apt to drop as it ripens.The tree is a good cropper but is sometimes biennial. Tallow Pippin Apple was a most important variety in the apple orchards of a generation ago. It is preeminently an apple for the home orchard, since it furnishes fruit for dessert or cooking from late summer to early winter. The flesh, while coarse, is pleasantly flavored, and the large, bright-yellow apples, with a most perceptible coating of wax, giving rise to the expressive names Greasy Pippin and lowell, are very attractive in appearance. Where and when it originated is not known, but it has been under cultivation for at least a century and is generally distributed throughout the East and North.

Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, open. Fruit large, uniform in size but variable in shape, round- oblong, conic, unsymmetrical, irregular; stem long, thick, deflected to one side; cavity acute, shallow, broad, often russeted; calyx large, closed or partly open; basin shallow, medium in width, abrupt, often furrowed and wrinkled; skin thin, tender, smooth or with occasional russet dots and flecks, waxy, rich yellow ; dots numerous, inconspicuous, brown, russet or submerged ; calyx-tube long, wide, conical; stamens median ; core large, axile to abaxile; cells closed; core-lines meeting or clasping; carpels obovate, emarginate; seeds dark brown, medium in size, obtuse; flesh yellow, firm, fine-grained, crisp, tender, very juicy, sprightly subacid; good to very good ; August to October.