Description
Raised in Cambridgeshire by Mr. Chivers of Histon around 1920, this is a very attractive late dessert apple, which is hardy and suitable for the North. It crops heavily and keeps extremely well. The fruit are pale yellow with some orange-red flushing, firm and juicy, with a fine-textured flesh and a medium-sweet honey flavour that keep until well into the new year.
"With a time lapse between raising (1920 or 1936) and introduction (1966), this apple, of unknown Parentage, originated at the John Chivers Farms at Histon, in chilly Cambridgeshire. The raising date was not propitious for the introduction of a good new apple, falling as it did immediately before the outbreak of war, and there have only been small commercial plantings of it. But it has proved hardy in the drier parts of northern and north-eastern Britain, and does not appear unduly affected by canker there. for which it does have a reputation.
It is a good-looking apple, one of the best keepers in our own store. alongside the Ribston Pippin, where it develops a honeyed aroma and retains its juicy well-balanced sweet-sharp bite, and firmness of texture, well into the New Year:
Bunyard might have described it as attar of the apple store, and the flavour of the best vintages is very addictive. This will be the apple I grab to savour on the way to the walled garden, and it has with it that association of crisp, sunny December mornings." © Lin Hawthorne - 'The Northern Pomona'.
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