Adam's Apples

Long have I sought to pair these two English apples. Cox's is legendary, and Ribston, also known as Glory of York, is widely supposed to be Cox's parent.

When I asked for some Cox's Orange Pippin at Gould Hill Orchard, the staff apologized and offered these.  They are an introduction to a whole different cohort of apples, full flavored, dense, and complex. Also know as Glory of York, this apple's story is summarized in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable as follows: So called from Ribston, in Yorkshire, where Sir Henry Goodricke planted three pips, sent to him from Rouen, in Normandy. Two pips died, but from the third came all the Ribston apple-trees in England.