Description
We think this came from Kent and was formally known as King Apple in around the late 1700s, but may have been sent there from a nursery in Leeds. The fruit (which is he fruit is large, and pale green in colour) cooks to a froth, and has a sharp flavour but mellows in store. Flowers susceptible to late frost damage
"An apple of preposterous size in our own orchard, but never tasteless as are many inflated fruits; Warner's King is of champion flavour too. Known since the late 1700s, it was renamed by Thomas Rivers, who received it as the King apple, after Mr Warner, the Gosforth (Leeds) nurseryman who sent it to him. By reputation very hardy, healthy and disease free, and among the most popular of Victorian apples, it is often found in old Yorkshire and Lancashire orchards, though Hilary Wilson removed it from her high-rainfall Cumbrian orchard on account of scab and canker.
Other notes: slightly susceptible to bitter pit, attractive blossom, RHS Award of Garden Merit, 1993" © Lin Hawthorne - 'The Northern Pomona'.
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