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Hunt’s Duke of Gloucester
type: Eating
identification: Medium size tending to small. Ovate to conic shape. The skin base colour is green with a reddish brown blush on the sun exposed face. Completely covered with russet. The stem is short and stout set in a short and moderately funnel shaped cavity. The eye is small and closed set in a deep and wide basin.
characteristics: The flesh is white, crisp, juicy and very nutty. Sweet sharp. Keeps about three months in cold storage.
uses: A fresh eating apple.
origins: UK Gloucestershire 1820 Raised from a seed of the old Nonpareil, to which it bears a strong resemblance, by Dr. Fry, of Gloucester, and received name it now bears from being sent to the Horticultural Socie of London by Thomas Hunt, Esq., of Stratford?on?Avon, in 1820.
cultivation: A small, weakly vigorous tree, upright spreading and bearing fruit on spurs. Ready for harvest by the middle the THIRD period.
pollination group: B
pollination peak: 7
ploidism: Self sterile. Group B. Day 7.
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