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Reverend Wilks
type: Cooking, Sauce
synonyms: Reverend W. Wilks
identification: Large and round to round-conic. The base colour is yellow maturing to creamy white, blushed pale red and striped on the sun-exposed face. The calyx is closed to partly open, set in a wide and shallow, ribbed basin. The stem is short and somewhat slender, set in a deep and funnel shaped, russetted cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured and tender. Juicy and sweet with a touch of tartness. Well flavoured.
uses: Cooking. Makes a sweet, pale yellow, flavourful sauce.
origins: Raised late in the 1800s by J.C. Allgrove at the Veitch Nurseries of Chelsea (U.K.) and introduced in 1904 when it received the Award of Merit from London's Royal Horticultural Society. Thought to be a cross of Peasgood’s Nonsuch with pollen from Ribston Pippin . Named for the vicar in Surrey who served as the Secretary of the from 1889 to 1919.
cultivation: Small, vigorous, compact spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs. Starts to bear fruit quite young. Produces medium crops with a biennial tendency. Does well as cordons and espalier.
progeny: Robert Blatchford
cold storage: Up to four months.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to most disease.
harvest: Starting late in the third period.
pollination group: B
pollination peak: 7
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
harvest period: 3
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