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New Hawthornden
type: Culinary, Sauce
synonyms: Graham’s Giant. On ocassion, it has been mistakenly referred to as the Winter Hawthornden .
summary: A mid-season, heritage cooking apple that makes a tart and fine-tasting sauce. Considered a good market and garden variety and continues to be available from specialty nurseries in Britain.
identification: Large, round to round-flattened. Greenish-yellow maturing to yellow, often blushed pale orange on the sun-exposed face and marked with a few russet lenticels.. The calyx is large, partly open and set in a shallow, ribbed basin. The stem is short and medium thickness, set in a medium deep and narrow, russetted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish-white, crisp and tender. Acidic.
uses: Cooking. Makes a sharp and golden sauce.
origins: Likely raised from open-pollinated seeds of Hawthornden by nurseryman Thomas Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, England. in the early 1800s. Introduced in 1847.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous. Slow to start bearing fruit.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months.
vulnerabilities: Susceptible to scab.
harvest: Starting early in the fourth period.
notes: Sometimes confused with the Hawthornden which it resembles, but it is considerably larger.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 11
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 4
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