With great pleasure I want to thank Mr. Howard Stringer / Surrey   
( howard@howardstringer.freeserve.co.uk ) who translated this page into English.
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The Reinette  Apple “Freiherr von Berlepsch”
syn. “Baron de Berlepsch” 

Named in honour of Dr. Hans Herrmann Freiherr von Berlepsch, President of the Rhine Province of Duesseldorf (1884-1890) and later Imperial State Minister for Trade and Industry (1890-1896).

Provenance : Germany about 1880, the result of a cross between Reinette d’Ananas and Ribston Pippin by Diedrich Uhlhorn, junior, of Grevenbroich in North Rhine Westphalia. Reckoned to be one of his best seedlings.

Size : medium, 60-70 mm. wide, 50-60 mm. high.

Shape : Round-conical, regular, typically with  5 narrow but prominent ribs arising evenly from the basin.

Stem cavity : moderately deep, funnel shaped, often narrow, covered with bright brown gleaming russet.

Stem : ½-1½ cm. long, woody, club-like thickening at end, fleshy bud-like swelling on one side, downy.

Basin : fairly wide, rather shallow, ribbed, uneven, with russet marbling.

Eye : closed or half open. The sepals narrow, of medium length, brown.

Skin, Colour : smooth, often a little  rough, dry. Ground colour greenish-yellow  to yellow, with a characteristic marbled and striped brownish red flush covering from ¾ to the whole fruit. Lenticels numerous, fine, fairly inconspicuous, light brown.

Floral tube : funnel-shaped or triangular, broad and short. Stamens median.

Core line : medium size, obovate, distant. The axis forms an elliptical wide hollow. The cell walls are wide,  rounded towards the eye, tufted.

Seeds : large, broad accuminate, chestnut brown with darker edges, well developed.

Flesh, flavour : creamy-white, firm, crisp, very juicy, refreshing, intensely flavoured and of very high Vitamin C content.

Storage : ripe early January – early April. One of the few varieties which keep its  flavour over the major portion of its storage period. Liable to shrivel in store but does not suffer from internal browning. Suitable for 1 degree Centigrade storage. In some years can taste bitter towards the end of its season.

Tree : it forms a close branched, spherical head. Moderately vigorous, but often not sufficiently so. Demands good soil and a warm situation, otherwise it can suffer from canker and leaf-tip browning. Liable to pre-harvest fruit drop and should not be picked too late. Can be damaged by sulphur, copper and Captan sprays. Blossoms mid-season. Pollen good.  

A very valuable cultivar, but only to be grown in warm situations.

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