Blenheim Orange Blenheim Orange Blenheim Orange (Dempster's Pippin) is a cultivar of apple. It was found at Woodstock, Oxfordshire near Blenheim in England in about 1740. It has been described as a cooking apple. A tailor named George Kempster planted the original kernel and the apple, known locally as Dempster's Pippin, which began to be catalogued in about 1818. It received the Banksian Silver Medal in 1820 and thereafter spread through England to Europe and America. This apple has a greenish-yellow to orange skin streaked with red. It has a distinctive nutty flavour and is excellent for cooking. Blenheim Orange does not
After Blenheim he contradicts her, no, he says, it was a great victory. The poem is a scathing commentary on "man's cruelty to man". While Southey's verse, "After Blenheim", is considered by some an anti-war poem, arguably Southey was not himself anti-war: Byron himself considered Southey a puzzle: on the one hand, he denigrated the English victory at Blenheim, but praised the Battle of Waterloo in "The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo", a popular poem that generated £215 in two months of publication. It is one of Southey's most famous poems. The internal repetition of "but 'twas a famous victory" juxtaposed with the