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White Jersey
type: Cider
summary: Overlooked by many cider makers, this small, yellow Somerset apple is rated as a vintage bittersweet produces heavy harvests and adapts well to most conditions.
identification: Small to medium size, pale yellow skin colour.
characteristics: Soft, bittersweet.
origins: Cadbury Castle 1800s Somerset
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, spreading. Precocious. Biennial.
cold storage: Do not keep well but can be sweated for about two weeks.
harvest: Starting in the middle of the fourth period. The apples start to drop as soon as they are ripe.
juice character: A good vintage quality cider apple.
juice_classification: Mild bittersweet
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 15
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 2
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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