English Apples - Cornish Aromatic
Excellent apple; matures late; around New Year and keeps until about March. Orangepippin pollination group 4-5 (quite late flowering). This is an old Cornish apple, small, almost all dullish scarlet, netted pattern on skin, russeted, very crisp and aromatic. A light but regular cropper; not unduly affected by heavy rain.
First recorded in 1813 but believed to be much earlier; Deacon's catalogue suggest around 1500.
The shape is rather like West Virginia Sweet and Kidd's Orange (q.v.) but the flavour is quite different to both.
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compiled by Nigel Deacon / Diversity website
