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Dumelow's Seedling
type: Culinary, Sauce
synonyms: Duke of Wellington, Dumbelow’s Seedling, Dumeller’s Crab, Dumeller’s Seedling, Dumelow’s Crab, Dummellor’s Seedling, May Day Apple, Normanton Wonder, Sutton Beauty (this is also a synonym for Sutton ), Wellington, Wellington’s Reinette, Winter Hawthornden.
identification: Large, round flattened with angular sides. Pale green — more yellow when fully ripe — over which is a pale orange flush and broken stripes, especially on the sun-exposed side. Heavily punctuated with large russet lenticels. The calyx is large and open, set in a somewhat shallow and narrow basin. The stem is short and medium thick, set deep in a narrow, funnel shaped cavity which is usually russetted. Tough skinned.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm, crisp, very juicy and very sharp. Somewhat aromatic.
uses: Makes a wonderful, tart apple sauce, slightly creamy in colour and well-flavoured.
origins: This was a seedling tree (likely a Northern Greening ) raised by Richard Dumeller of Shakerstone, Leicestershire (U.K.), during the late 1700s and was widely adopted in the surrounding countryside . Subsequently, Richard Williams received a sample and the variety interested him to the point where he offered it for sale at his Turnham Green Nursery in 1819 under the name of Wellington Apple. He introduced the variety to the London Horticultural Society in 1820. Still known by some as the Wellington apple, its popularity lasted for almost a century in the U.K. and it is still grown in many gardens.
cultivation: Vigorous and spreading. Crops well every second year. The tree is easy to identify by its new shoots which are long and stout and profusely dotted with large grey spots.
progeny: Hounslow Wonder , Cottenham Seedling , Baron Ward , Newton Wonder , Belvoir Seedling , Monarch and Lane’s Prince Albert .
mutations: Striped Wellington
cold storage: Keeps up to five months
harvest: Ripens first half of of the fifth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 15
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 5
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