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John Huggett
type: Dessert
identification: Medium tending to large, round conic. The base colour is green, washed brownish on the sun-exposed face. The calyx is small and closed, set in a shallow, pleated basin. The stem is slender and long, extending proud of the shoulder and set in a funnel-shaped, russet cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is white, firm. Sweet and aromatic.
origins: Raised during 1940s by John Huggett of Gange-Over-Sands, Lancashire (U.K.) as the pippin of an open-pollinated Allington Pippin .
cultivation: Spur bearer.
harvest: Late in the third period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
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