Description
A popular garden apple in the 19th C, this variety is very early, being ready to use from late July, and is bright yellow when ripe, with refreshing, firm cream flesh, that cooks to a sweet white puree.
"Believed to have originated in Scotland, and grown in orchards in Clydes Dale, Lanarkshire, during the eighteenth century, it became a popular market apple south of the border, after it journeyed with Ronalds to Brentford in the nineteenth. Hogg tells us its name derives from its early ripening in July before the change in the calendar; it ripens in early August. It has a very beautiful smooth, straw yellow skin when ripe, slightly flushed orange on the sunny side, dotted with tiny pale freckles. The creamy flesh is firm and juicy, with a refreshingly brisk, balsamic flavour; it cooks down to a bright golden purée. A prime candidate for the new apple, in the week of the old and the new apple pie. It is grown successfully under organic conditions in Ayrshire." © Lin Hawthorne - 'The Northern Pomona'.
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