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Scarlet Nonpareil
type: Eating
synonyms: New Scarlet Nonpareil, Saint Augustine’s Orange, Sheppard’s Nonpareil
identification: Medium size, round sometimes flattened, sometimes slightly conic. The skin base colour is yellow which shows through between pale red streaks on the shaded face. Completely washed with bright red on the sun exposed face with streaks of darker red. Large patches of russet and also large russet lenticels. The eye is medium size and open, set in a shallow and wide basin which is faintly ribbed. The stem varies from very short to very long and set in a narrow and shallow cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, fine grained and firm. Juicy and intensely sweet and fruity.
uses: Eating apple
origins: Esher Surrey UK 1773 in the garden of an inn HOGG: The Scarlet Nonpareil, according to one account, was discovered growing in the garden of a publican at Esher, in Surrey, and was first cultivated by Grimwood, of the Kensington Nursery, but according to Salisbury it was raised from seed at Kempton Park, near Sun bury, in the beginning o this century (1816). NFC Raised in about 1773 in the garden of an inn at Esher, Surrey. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1901.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, upright spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs. Produces good crops.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months.
harvest: In the middle of the fourth period.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 4
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