Description
Excellent dual-purpose variety, found in a garden in Tilgate, Crawley in Sussex in about 1870. Use as a cooking apple early season, producing a light well-flavoured puree, but matures to make an excellent Christmas eating apple. Heavy reliable crops on spreading growth, this hardy variety can flower as late as June.
"Another offcomer from southern parts, valued in northern Britain, in the east and wetter west, on account of its late flowering (often in June), consequent resistance to frost and subsequent good crops, which are of brisker flavour in the north. The waxy skin polishes well. A cottage-garden discovery, c. 1870, at Tilgate, near Crawley, Sussex, introduced by Cheal's nursery in 1906. It will cross pollinate with Court Pendu Plat." © Lin Hawthorne - 'The Northern Pomona'.
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