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Welford Park Nonsuch
type: Cooking, Eating
identification: Large, round oblate. The skin is lemon yellow over which is a bright red blush which is streaked with darker red on the sun exposed side, becoming pale toward the shaded side. The stem is long, slender and and set in a deep and wide cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is white, tender. Fruity
uses: Both cooking and eating apple.
origins: Raised by Charles Ross, the gardener at Welford Park, Newbury (UK) from a seed from Golden Harvey which was assumed to have been pollinated by a Lamb Abbey Pearmain (the two varieties had been grafted to the same tree).The se were planted in 1864 and cuttings were grafted to a Blenheim Pippin in 1865. The grafts bore the first fruit in 1871. — ? Golden Harvey x Lane Abby Pearmain, Berkshirehire, England, 1864
cultivation: Moderately vigorous.
cold storage: Up to five months
harvest: In the last half of the third period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Self sterile. Group C Day 10
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 3
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