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Walker Yellow
type: Culinary, Pollinization, Sauce
synonyms: The Walker Yellow is also known as Walker, Walker Beauty, Walker's Winter.
Often confused with Walker Pippin which is also a green/yellow apple.
summary: Grown in the southeastern United States during the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900s. Restored as a heritage apple in the early 2000s. Very similar and often confused with the Walker Pippin .
identification: Medium size fruit, sometimes tending to large. Round, conic shape, often lopsided. The skin is smooth and yellow, often blushed red on the sun-exposed face. The stem is somewhat slender and medium length, set in a medium size, narrow cavity which is often corrugated. The cavity can be lightly russeted. The calyx can be small to medium, closed or partly open, set in a small to medium, narrow basin. Lenticels are small and russeted.
characteristics: Flesh is pale cream-coloured. Firm, coarse-grained, crisp and firm. Juicy and distinctly acidic.
origins: According to the late Creighton Lee Calhoun, author of "Old Southern Apples" (published 1995, 2010), the Walker Yellow was introduced at the Georgia State Fair in 1852 by George Walker of Longstreet, Pulaski County, Georgia (U.S.A.). Problem is that S.A. Beach, author of "The Apples of New York" (published 1903) discusses a similar apple called the Walker Beauty which allegedly originated in Alleghenny County, Pennsylvania. Calhoun listed the Walker Yellow apples as being extinct.
cultivation: Vigorous tree, upright and dense growth habit with long, slender branching.
cold storage: Keeps up to five months.
harvest: Late ripening.
pollination peak: 1
cold storage weeks: 20
hardiness: 6
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