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A.D.W. Atkins
type: Culinary, Cider, Pie, Sauce
synonyms: Atkins
summary: A tart British cooking apple, also used for making cider.
identification: Medium to large size, round to flat and often lopsided. Green with a wash of brownish red on the sun-exposed face, usually less than one third of the total surface. Abundant, large white lenticels. The calyx is small, tightly closed, set in a wide basin. The stem is short (rising just to the level of the shoulders) and stout in a wide and medium-deep cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is pale greenish, often with green stains. Coarse-grained, acidic.
origins: Raised from seed by A.D.W. Atkins of Exmouth in Devon (U.K.) in about 1971.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous.
harvest: Ready for harvest toward the end of the fourth period.
pollination group: A
pollination peak: 2
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
harvest period: 4
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