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Williams
type: Dessert
synonyms: Early, Early Red, Favorite, Favourite Red, Lady’s Apple, Queen (there is a cultivar named Queen ), Red, Southern Queen, William’s Early, William’s Red, Williams, Williams Early Red, Williams Favorite Red, Williams’ Early Red, Williams’ Favorite Red, Williams’ Red. Initially known as Williams Favorite and sold on Boston markets as Queen and Lady's Apple, it was renamed Williams by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1880. This is not the same apple as Williams' Pride nor the Lady Williams .
summary: A good cooking apple that comes ripe in mid-summer.
identification: Medium to large size, conic shape with slightly angular faces. Base colour is green marked almost completely or completely with dense patterns of deep red stripes. The calyx is moderate size with long petals, set in a funnel shaped basin. The stem is long and somewhat slender, set in a shallow, wide cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is creamy white with pink stains close to the core and the skin. Firm, coarse-grained and moderately crisp. Juicy and sweet with a mild tartness. Balsamic aroma and raspberry flavour. Becomes dry when over-ripe.
origins: A chance seedling found in the mid-1700s on the farm of Benjamin Williams in Roxbury, Suffold County, Massachussets (U.S.A.) and first documented by Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1830.
cultivation: Not vigorous on its own roots. Responds well to vigorous root stock, becoming precocious and needing regular pruning to maintain fruit size. Can produce annual harvests but more likely to alternate between below average and above average years.
cold storage: Does not store well.
vulnerabilities: Resistant to fire blight, prone to cedar apple rust.
harvest: Ready to be picked in the middle of the third period but ripens progressively, so several pickings should be expected.
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 16
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
harvest period: 3
hardiness: 4
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