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Cox’s Pomona
type: Sauce
identification: Large, flat and irregular with pronounced wide ribs and crowned. The skin is pale green to yellow over which are orange red flushes and wide, broken darker red stripes. Smooth and greasy feel. The stem is medium long, slender and set in a deep cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is wide, soft and very juicy. Tends to be quite sharp when eaten fresh, but cooking sweetens the apple and releases some of the fine flavours.
uses: Outstanding for baked apple, cooks to a sweet, flavourful and lemon yellow sauce.
origins: Raised in about 1825 by Richard Cox of Colnbrook Lawn, Slough, Buckinghamshire, and introduced by Mr Smale, Nurseryman, Colnbrook c 1850. Said to be a seedling of Ribston Pippin. possible seedlingof Ribston Pippin x Blenheim Orange, c1825 by Richard Cox, Colnbrook Lawn, Slough, Buckinghamshire, England
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading spur bearer. Hardy. Ready for harvest late in the first period. Resistant to scab. Ready for harvest starting the middle of first period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 14
ploidism: Self sterile. Group D. Day 14.
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