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Storey’s Seedling Apple
type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Jelly, Juice, Ornamental, Pie, Pollinization, Sauce
summary: A sweet and mildly tart dessert apple developed in Britain.
identification: The size of a plum, rounded and often smaller. The base colour is greenish-yellow, with the surface washed pale red and marked with darker stripes. Speckled with fine, white dots on the sun-exposed face. The calyx is somewhat large, and partly open, set in a shallow basin surrounded by a knobbed crown. The stem is long and slender, set in a deep and moderately narrow cavity, surrounded by light russeting. Weakly ribbed.
characteristics: The medium-soft flesh is white, juicy, with a mildly tart flavour. Weakly ribbed.
uses: Dessert apple.
origins: Developed in the mid-1920s in Middlesex, U.K., as a late-ripening dessert apple. Newton Pippin is reported to be the flower parent, the pollen parent is not recorded.
cultivation: Vigorous, upright spreading. Bears fruit on spurs. Mid-season pollinization. Ready for harvest late in the middle period.
cold storage: Keeps up to four months in cold storage.
vulnerabilities: Good disease resistance.
harvest: Late in the middle period.
notes: Self sterile. Fruit is described as soft and white-fleshed, with a crisp, fruity flavour.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 13
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 16
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