Ribston Pippin

A vigorous tree with upright growth, its medium-sized ovate to oval-shaped leaves are a deep green color and distinctly folded with sharp, regular, and shallow serrations.

[3] The apple appears in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native in the second book, chapter two: "Now a few russets, Tamsin.

[8] In A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr, the vicar's wife Alice Keach says to protagonist Tom Birkin, "I've brought you a bag of apples.

"[9] Ribston Pippins also make an appearance in the Scottish novel, "The Keys of the Kingdom" by A. J. Cronin: "The apple shed was soft with crepuscular twilight.

When her small teeth bit through the amber skin into the crisp, white flesh, little spurts of juice ran down her chin."

Ribston Pippin.
On the tree