Description
Raised by Thomas Knight in Ludlow, Shropshire in about 1800, this is an excellent late season dessert apple - very small fruit, with a smooth clear yellow skin, but with an exceptionally full sweet-sharp taste. Makes a lovely Christmas apple.
"Orange Pippin x Golden Pippin cross.
A most worthy companion to other tiny apples, like Api, Golden Knob, or Pitmaston Pine Apple, the Ingestrie is the perfect apple for Christmas desserts, having an intense and brisk, sweet-sharp vinous flavour. It is neat in shape, almost cylindrical — oblong and flattened at the base, and has smooth, clear yellow skin and golden cheeks. It also makes a beautiful tree, with attractive blossom and an almost weeping habit; the previous owner of my Bunyard's Handbook of Fruits grew a trio on the south side of his orchard. Once widely grown in the north, and found still in old estate orchards and in walled gardens, it was raised by Thomas Knight, c. 1800, probably at Elton Manor, Ludlow, Shropshire, but was named for Lord Talbot's estate at Ingestrie Hall in Staffordshire. A most excellent dessert apple once commanding good price at market despite its small size; there are other claimants of its provenance." © Lin Hawthorne - 'The Northern Pomona'.
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