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Collins
type: Culinary
synonyms: Apple of Commerce, Champion, Champion Red, Collins Red, Collins’ Red, Commerce, Coss Champion, Coss’s Champion. Pomme de Commerce and Commercio in Europe.
identification: Medium to large, round to round-conic, often with slightly angular sides. The base colour is pale yellow with a darker stripes over a reddish wash over which are pale lenticels. The calyx is small and closed, set in a deep, very wide basin which is lightly ribbed. The stem is medium to long, set in a deep, funnel-shaped cavity which is russetted. Skin tends to be thick and develops a waxy coating as it ripens.
characteristics: The flesh is pale yellow, firm and somewhat coarse-grained. Juicy and sweet, sprightly with a mildly astringent flavour.
origins: Found by nursery owner George Collins as a wild seedling on the Merriman homestead near Cove Hill, Washington County, Arkansas (U.S.A.) Fruited in 1885 and was extensively grafted for planting in neighbouring orchards as of 1886. Initially, the apple was called Coss' Champion and Coss' Seedling, in honour of the occupant of the Merriman homestead. In 1893 it was decided that the name Collins' Red or simply Collins should prevail in honour of the man who not only took notice of the wilding but also spread it far and wide. Following its showing at 1900 Paris Exposition of the world's fair, the cultivar made its way to Europe and was widely grown in France where it was dubbed Pomme de Commerce or Commercio for short.
cultivation: Upright with slightly drooping ranches. Produces fruit annually and apples hold on the tree at maturity.
progeny: Blaze
cold storage: Keeps up to four months in storage
harvest: Ready for harvest in the latter half of the fifth period.
notes: Similar to the Ben Davis in flavour and shape. The Pomme de Commerce is often suggested as being the same as Collins, but there are a number of differences between the two.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 13
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
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