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Edith Hopwood
type: Dessert
summary: This is one of several apples developed by F.W. Thorrington of Hornchurch, Essex, during the early 1900s.
identification: Medium size, round. Greenish yellow maturing to bright yellow with russet lenticels.
characteristics: Flesh is cream-coloured, coarse-grained, firm and crisp. Juicy and sweet. Very sharp when picked before it is fully ripe.
origins: Developed and raised from an open-pollinated Cox’s Orange Pippin by F. W. Thorrington of Hornchurch, Essex (U.K.) during the early 1900s. Fruit from this cross were submitted at the National Fruit Trials in 1925.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading spur bearer.
harvest: Ready for harvest starting in the first half of the fourth period. Prone to dropping before fully ripe.
notes: Thorrington's other apples from this cross are Rosy Blenheim , Sunburn , Francis and Ruby (Thorrington) .
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 16
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
harvest period: 4
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