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Improved Keswick Codlin
type: Cider, Eating
synonyms: Improved Keswick, Tamar Apple.
identification: Medium, round flattened to slightly conic. The base colour is yellow, often flushed faint orange on the sun exposed side.
characteristics: sweet sharp.
uses: Picked in the fourth period before the fruit is fully ripe, this makes a good baking apple with plenty of fresh acidity. By the fifth period, the apple is fully ripe and sweet-tart with pineapple notes. At this point is is general picked for either cider making or fresh eating .
origins: Assumed to be a chance seedling of the Keswick Codlin and found growing in the Tamar Valley, Cornwall (U.K.)
cultivation: Medium size tree on its own roots. Bears heavy crops annually and, as a result, it tends to develop a weeping shape. Tolerant of most soils.
cold storage: Keeps for four months in cold storage.
harvest: Ready for harvest starting at the beginning of the fifth period.
notes: According to British pomologist Robert Hogg in the "Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer, Volume XXI" published in 1890, "This Apple possesses all the virtues of the old Keswick, with the addition that the tree is a better grower and the fruit a shade larger."
ploidism: Partly self fertile but does best in proximity to a source of suitable pollen.
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 5
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