Description
An old Perthshire variety originating at Gowrie farm. Used mainly as a cooker, and has a delicate flavour, but is also good for cider. Makes a vigorously growing tree that is hardy and tolerant of wetter conditions, and which produces round apples with soft sweet-sharp flavoured flesh.
"To the south-east of Perth and Kinross, sheltered from the cold north winds, lie the fertile lowlands of the Carse of Gowrie, a few sparse metres above the banks of the Tay. There, the 'kerselands' were drained in the 18th century, and planted with orchards of every kind of fruit. We know it in the National Collection, by the good endeavours of Mr Brotherston of Tyninghame, East Lothian, who gave it in 1949, but it is another of the Scottish apples that went to Congress in 1883. A vigorous tree bearing round-conical to conical apples with melting flesh of sweet-sharp flavour, that hold their shape when cooked." © Lin Hawthorne - 'The Northern Pomona'.
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