Description
Rare traditional Yorkshire variety, originating in the famous Backhouse nursery in York, sometime before 1831. Bright red flushed second-early dessert apple which is sharp and hard. The tree is hardy, vigorous, and spreading, and bears large brightly coloured fruit. Counted as a dessert variety, the flavour is crisp and sharp (not one for the aficionados of Jazz or Gala!), and perhaps better used as a dual-purpose apple.
"This brilliantly coloured apple arose in Yorkshire, before 1831, at the Backhouse's Holgate nursery, and is still found in old farm orchards in Yorkshire; it is a vigorous tree, and when ready to pick the large apples can be seen blazing from several fields away. It has very firm, creamy coloured flesh that is sub-acid but rather sharp for a dessert apple, and it was never widely grown outside of Yorkshire, perhaps for that reason; it wasn't long sustained in the Backhouse catalogue. It would be better classified as a cooker, used sliced to top a tart to make good use of the brilliantly coloured skin." © Lin Hawthorne - 'The Northern Pomona'.
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