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Hunter’s Majestic
type: Cooking, Eating
identification: Large, conic. The skin base colour is green over which is a dense pattern of bright red stripes covering the sun exposed faces. The eye is small and closed, shallow, wide and puckered basin.The stemis medium long and moderately stout, set in a funnel shaped cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, coarse grained and soft. Sweet tart and somewhat too brisk for eating out of hand, but becoming sweeter after harvest.
uses: A good cooking apple when picked early, flavourful eating apple when allowed to ripen and even mellow a couple of weeks.
origins: Worcester Pearmain Raised by Miss E Balding, of Upwell, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire before 1914 from a Worcester Pearmain seed. Introduced in 1928 by W Hunter, of Wisbech. — Worcester Pearmain, cross, before, 1914, Miss. E. Balding, Upwell, Wisbech Cambs, England, introduced, 1928
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading spur bearer. Ready for harvest by the middle of the THIRD period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Self sterile. Group C. Day 10.
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