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Doctor
type: Cider, Eating, Sauce
synonyms: Doctor Dewitt, deWitt, Doctor of Germantown, Germantown, Newby, Coon, Coon Red.
identification: Medium tending to large. Round flattened. Base colour is yellow, blushed red. flushed with bright red. The skin is tough and thick. Short stem, sometimes medium, set in a deep and narrow cavity. The calyx is large, partly open, set in a wide and deep basin.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, crisp and coarse-grained. Moderately juicy and lightly aromatic.
uses: Fresh eating, also makes excellent sauces and used in cider.
origins: Assumed to have been raised from one of the many apple pippins brought from Europe by German settlers who established Germantown in what is now a part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (U.S.A.). There is no indication of its parentage. . First documented by William Coxe in his 1817 edition of "A View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees and the Management of Orchards and Cider" with the statement that "It derives its name from a physician (Christopher Witt) in Germantown, near Philadelphia, by whom it was first brought to notice." Also mentioned by A.J. Downing in the 1845 edition of "The Fruit and Fruit Trees of America" noting that "It is not so much esteemed here at the north, as the tree is rather an indifferent grower and bearer."
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, spreading. open tree. Precocious.
cold storage: Keeps for five months in cold storage.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to scab.
harvest: Ready for harvest over a three week span after the beginning of the fifth period.
ploidism: Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 5
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