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Newtown|ˈnjuːtaʊn|
Also Newton.
The name of a town on Long Island in New York state, used attrib. or absol. to designate two varieties of dessert apple first introduced there, the Newtown pippin and the Newtown Spitzenburg. So ˈNewtowner, a Newtown apple.
1760G. Washington Diary 30 Mar. (1925) I. 147 Grafted 10 of the New Town Pippin from Collo. 1770in Maryland Historical Mag. (1918) XIII. 69 Things sent by the wagon 4 Barrills of Apples Russetins, Golden Pippins, Newtown Pippins & Pairmains. 1785G. Washington Diary 12 Nov. (1925) II. 435 Received two New Town and 2 Golden Pippin trees. 1803A. F. M. Willich Domestic Encycl. (Amer. ed.) III. 110 Newton Pippin. Ibid. IV. 182/2 The New-town Pippin, or New-York Rennet, a noble American apple. 1817W. Coxe View of Cultivation of Fruit Trees 126 Newton Spitzemberg [sic]. This apple is in some parts of this State [sc. Pennsylvania] called the English, or Burlington Spitzemberg: it was brought from Newton on Long-Island. 1840N.Y. Mirror 4 Apr. 327/2 Dealers in Newton pippins and maple candy tell you..they can't afford their accommodations so low as they can be afforded in Chatham and Church streets. 1846J. F. Cooper Ravensnest I. i. 27 Their poire beurrée, here at Paris..will not compare with the Newtowners we grow at Satanstoe. 1860R. Hogg Fruit Manual 18 Newtown Pippin, D. — Medium sized, roundish, rather irregular, and obscurely ribbed... Requires a wall in this country. December to April. 1863Rep. Comm. Agric. 1862 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 168 Newtown Spitzenberg... A very hardy tree; good bearer; fruit of superior quality; keeps and bears transportation well. 1877E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 34 Newtown Pippin... Named after Newtown, Long Island. This apple is imported from America. Ibid. 36 Kitchen Apples... Newtown Spitzemberg [sic]... Named by William Cobbett ‘the matchless’. 1913J. London Valley of Moon 364 Every year he goes to England, and he takes a hundred carloads of yellow Newton pippins with him. 1925B. D. Drain Essent. Systematic Pomology v. 78 Newtown Spitzenburg Group. Medium size, round-oblate, red-striped, high quality. 1953Brooks & Hesse Western Fruit Gardening 97 Yellow Newtown is most widely grown in the coastal districts... The fruit is medium to large, roundish to flattened, green to yellow. |
