Blenheim Orange hold its shape, rather, it produces a fine puree as it cooks. Typical of triploid apple varieties, Blenheim Orange is a very vigorous tree, and on standard rootstock can grow in excess of 30 feet tall. It is slow to come into production, but will then produce heavily. Fruit needs to be thinned heavily to control its biennial habit. Horticulturist Richard Cox crossed Blenheim Orange with Ribston Pippin to produce Cox's Orange Pippin. 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
James Grieve (Liberal politician) was elected Member of Parliament for Greenock. He held the seat until 1878. Grieve died at the age of 81. Grieve married firstly in 1833, Mary Jane Richardson, daughter of Andrew Richardson of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and secondly Annie Hill, daughter of Col. Charles J. Hill, of the Halifax Militia, Nova Scotia. James Grieve (Liberal politician) James Johnston Grieve (14 July 1810 - 20 August 1891) was a Scottish Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1878. Grieve was the son of Robert Grieve of Kielator, Killin, Perthshire and his wife Margaret Johnston, daughter of