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Howgate Wonder
type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Juice, Pie
summary: Cooking apple that keeps its shape for pies and tarts. Can also be eaten fresh. Makes a refreshing, sweet juice. Full sharp cider apple.
identification: Large to very large fruit, round conic and lightly ribbed. Pale yellowish green skin flushed and striped with red. Medium large, light coloured lenticels. The eye is small and closed, set in a deep and narrow basin. The stem is short and stout, set in a wide and deep, often russeted cavity.
characteristics: Flesh is pale cream, firm, crisp and fine-grained. Sharp, sweet with a lot of juice. Tends to be rather bland.
origins: Raised in the mid 1910s by G. Wratten of Howgate Lane, Isle of Wight (U.K.) from a seed created by cross pollinating a Blenheim Orange and Newton Wonder . It was introduced in 1932 by Stuart Low s nursery in 1932 and received an RHS Award of Merit in 1949. Raised in 1915?16 by G. Wratton at Howgate Lane, Bembridge, Isle of Wight. It was introduced in 1932 by Stuart Low Co. Received an Award of merit from the RHS in 1929.
cultivation: Vigorous, upright spreading tree. A spur bearer.
cold storage: Keeps up to five months. Stored apples are frequently covered with a thin waxy bloom.
cold storage weeks: 20
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