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Monarch
type: Culinary, Sauce
identification: Medium to large size, round to round-conic. The base colour is is pale yellow, over which is a reddish-pink flush that covers roughly three quarters of the surface. Broken stripes of darker red. The calyx is large and partly open, set in a medium deep, narrow basin which is surround by a faintly knobbed crown. The stem is short and stout, set in a deep and narrow basin which may be russetted. The skin develops a greasy feel in storage.
characteristics: The flesh is white, coarse-grained, soft. Juicy, very sweet, tart and aromatic. Bruises easily.
uses: A cooking apple that makes a slightly tart and flavourful, smooth apple sauce. Does not hold its shape when cooked or baked.
origins: Developed in 1888 by crossing Peasgood’s Nonsuch with pollen from Dumelow's Seedling . Introduced by W. Seabrook & Sons Nurseries of Boreham, Essex (U.K.) in 1918.
cultivation: Vigorous, upright spreading, spur bearer. Precocious. Crops heavily every other year.
cold storage: Keeps four months. The flavour improves after a month or so in storage.
vulnerabilities: Scab resistant in damp locations.
harvest: In the early part of the fifth period. Fruit tends to drop as soon as it is ripe.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 13
ploidism: Self fertile but does best in the promixity of an alternate source of compatible pollen.
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 5
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