Description
Very ornamental variety, both when in blossom and when the tree hangs laden with bright orange red-striped fruit in October. Strong, rich, aromatic flavour. Very heavy cropper - thin in June to ensure good-sized fruit. Raised in 1840 in Barnack, Lincolnshire. Bunyard reported in 1920 that it is "a useful and handy sort which does well on chalky subsoils." RHS Award of Merit 1899.
"This Lincolnshire apple was raised in the same area as Allington Pippin, in about 1840 in the village Of Barnack, and introduced by in 1870 by Messrs. W & J Brown of Stamford. Its birthplace lies on the Leicestershire Wolds, part of that great band of chalk that extends from Wessex, skirts East Anglia, traverses Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, and erupts on the coast of North Yorkshire, and both this apple, and its progeny, Barnack Orange, are known to thrive on chalky soils.
Its considerable merits were recognised by the RHS Award of Merit, in 1899, and a First Class Certificate in 1909, but although once considered to have market potential, to follow on from Worcester Pearmain, its tip-bearing habit and alleged light crops mitigated against this. Other writers say that the crops are heavy and fruit tends to be small unless judiciously thinned. Nevertheless it is a valuable garden apple, with attractive blossom and shapely, highly coloured and intensely flavoured fruit that stores well. Bunyard considered it 'Quite one of the most interesting fruits in February, as it keeps its acid flavour later than many.'" © Lin Hawthorne - 'The Northern Pomona'.
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