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Cox's orange pippin
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Widely held to be the best English apple, first grown in about 1825 by Mr Cox, a retired brewer, in his garden near Slough, in Berkshire. Pippin was a common word for apple; as to orange, a Cox's skin is in fact more dark red and greeny brown in colour.
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