Description
Found in the garden of a Mr Greenup, a shoemaker of Keswick, and introduced by Clarke & Atkinson nurserymen of Keswick in the late 1700s. This is a hardy, good yielding tree producing quality fruit even in difficult conditions of cold and wet. Known locally also as the 'Yorkshire Beauty', this is a handsome fruit, juicy, and well-flavoured and which makes wonderful baked apples when stuffed with raisins and brown sugar.
"A pippin raised in an eponymous shoemaker's garden in Keswick, and introduced by the Clark & Atkinson Nurseries at Keswick in the late 1700s, this is an iron-clad apple that grows well across most of northern Britain, east and west, in the highest rainfall areas, and throughout the Scottish Borders, yielding excellent quality fruits where other varieties would certainly be expected to fail. Suitable for organic culture. It is a very handsome apple with smooth skin, pale yellow-green, but flushed an intense red on the sunny side. It cooks to a creamy textured purée, frill of juice and sweet-sharp, not quite so sharp as a Bramley." © Lin Hawthorne - 'The Northern Pomona'.
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