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Loddington
type: Culinary, Pie, Sauce
synonyms: Killick’s Apple, Loddington Seedling, Mapson’s Seedling, Stone, Stone’s, Stone’s Apple, Stone’s Seedling. An American heritage apple also goes by the name Stone's, please see Stone .
summary: Once a highly prized cooking apple grown in southeastern England, great for sauce and pies. Still grown in its native range, but limited.
identification: Large, round-conic to oblong. Ribbed on the sides and ridged at the crown. The skin is glossy, green maturing to yellow with a brown blush and reddish striping on the sun-exposed face. Marked with abundant, small russet lenticels. The calyx is small and open, set in a moderately deep and funnel-shaped basin which is surrounded by a knobbed crown. The stem is short to medium in length, slender and set in a deep, wide and russeted cavity which is russeted over the shoulder.
characteristics: The flesh is white and tender, fine-grained. Soft and mildly acidic.
origins: The original tree was grown in the 1820s on the farm belonging to Robert Stone at Loddington near Maidstone (Britain). It became popular for apple pies and was sold commercially by Lewis Killick under the name Loddington on London markets. In 1877 it received a
First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Medium size tree, compact growth habit. Bears fruit on spurs. Produces heavy harvests. British pomologist Robert Hogg had this to say about the apple in the 1884 issue of his "Fruit Manual" "The tree is an early and immense bearer, medium sized and compact in growth. It does not produce long rampant shoots, but on the contrary when it comes into bearing it makes little wood, and keeps on forming an abundance of spurs."
cold storage: Keeps up to three months, during which time it mellows, becoming sweeter and more flavourful.
harvest: In the latter part of the fourth period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 12
ploidism: Triploid, needs to be planted in proximity of a source of compatible pollen.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
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