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Beauties of Wellington
synonyms: Sometimes called Beauty of Wellington, but it seems that Damon, Furlong who named the fruit, insisted that the plural be used because each and every one of them was a beauty.
identification: Medium size, round tending to conic. The skin colour is pale yellow, but almost completely covered bright red wash and darker stripes. Abundantly marked with star?shaped whitish lenticels. The surface is glossy. The stem is medium long and somewhat slender, set in a deep and narrow cavity. The eye is ???? and set in a very shallow basin.
characteristics: The flesh is cream coloured, stained with pale pink when the apple is fully ripe. Fine grained. Keeps for fou months in cold storage.
origins: Discovered as a wild seedling growing in Wellington Johnson James pasture in Charlotte, Maine (USA), sometime in the early 1900s. Sometime in the 1940s he gave some scion wood from the tree to Rule Furlong who turned it over to his son (Damon) to graft. Although the best time for grafting had long since passed, the grafts took and the two trees are still growing on the Furlong property in Maine.
cultivation: Ready for harvest at the end of the second period.
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