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 (Australian translator) at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is also a member of the Emeritus Faculty (ANU), where he serves as the Obituaries Wallah. James Grieve (Australian translator) James Grieve (born 1934) is an Australian translator of French literature and an author. His translations have included scientific works, books for children and two volumes of Marcel Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu" (ANU, 1982 and Penguin, London, 2002). Grieve's translated second part of Proust's 7-part "Remembrance of Things Past" is the first completely new English translation since the 1920s. There were six other translators working on the other parts,