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Potts' Seedling
type: Cooking, Juice, Sauce
synonyms: Dean’s Codlin, Deans’ Codlin, Holland Pippin (also used as a synonym for Fall Pippin and there is a cultivar by the name of Holland Pippin ), Nott’s Seedling, Notts Seedling, Notts’ Seedling, Pott’s Seedling, Potts Seedling, Potts’s Seedling, Pratt’s Pudding
summary: A British cooking apple originating in the mid 1800s.
identification: Large apple, round to round conic and often irregular in outline. The skin is thin-skinned, smooth and shiny, greenish yellow marked with light coloured dots. The eye is medium to large and closed, set in a shallow and narrow basin which is lightly ribbed and surrounded by a faintly knobbed crown. The stem is short, about half an inch long, and stout, set in a deep and uneven cavity.
characteristics: Flesh is white, fine-grained and soft. Dry and sweet. Fairly high acidity which prevents the cut apple from browning and adds a pleasant tartness to pies and sauces. Bruises easily.
uses: Cooking. Best used for sauce, but also once used extensively for juice.
origins: Raised from a seed by Samuel Potts of Robinson Lane, Ashton-under-Lyne in Lancashire (U.K.), in 1849 and produced commercially by John Nelson of Rotherham.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading spur bearer. Crops well.
progeny: James Grieve, an open pollinated cross of Potts' Seedling with Cox's Orange Pippin.
cold storage: Keeps up to two months.
vulnerabilities: Subject to mildew.
harvest: Ready for harvest early in the fifth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 13
cold storage weeks: 8
harvest period: 5
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