Apple Book

Rosie Sanders

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780711245129
• eBook ISBN: 9780711245136
• Topic: Ciencias biológicas
• Subtopic: Horticultura

Rosie Sanders, often described as the best painter of the world's most famous fruit, has devoted years to researching this book and submitting the apples to hour upon hour of meticulous observation. In 144 beautifully detailed watercolours she depicts the unrivalled range of form, colour and texture which characterize such varieties as Beauty of Bath, Peasgood Nonsuch, Cox's Orange Pippin and Egremont Russet. 

Painted with their blossom, twig and leaf, Rosie offers detailed descriptions of each apple's aroma, flavour and season as well as something of the history of each variety. The book is enhanced by a practical essay on apple growing by Harry Baker, fruit officer for many years at the Royal Horticultural Society and one of Britain’s foremost authorities on apple growing.

Emneth Early

An early Codlin-type cooking apple raised by William Lynn of Emneth in Cambridgeshire (UK) from Lord Grosvenor x Keswick Codlin and introduced by Messrs Cross of Wisbech. First recorded in 1899 with First Class Certificate from RHS. It later became known commercially as Early Victoria. It makes a hardy, spur-bearing, compact tree of moderately weak vigour and upright habit. The cropping is heavy with a biennial tendency and fruits can be small unless thinned. Season late July to mid August, picking time late July and early August. The fruits have a superb flavour, sub-acid and sweet, yet sharp when cooked, does not need sugar and cooks to a fluff. Fruits have almost no aroma.

Size Medium, though rather variable, 64–61mm (21/2 x 23/8").

Shape Round-conical to oblong-conical. Can be lop-sided. Irregular with prominent ribs.

Skin Yellowish-green becoming fairly bright greenish-yellow. Frequently a hair-line present. Lenticels small whitish-green dots which become larger towards the base and into cavity. Skin smooth and dry.

Stalk Medium thick (3mm) and quite long (23mm). Extends well beyond base.

Cavity Fairly wide and shallow.

Eye Small. Closed. Sepals quite large and long, erect and held tightly together with some tips reflexed. Downy.

Basin Shallow and quite small. Well puckered with trace of beading.

Tube Cone-shaped.

Stamens Marginal.

Core line Basal.

Core Median. Axile.

Cells Elliptical. Tufted.

Seeds Abundant. Acute. Plump and oval.

Leaves Medium to fairly large. Oval to broadly oval. Crenate. Medium thick. Flattish and slightly undulating. Light yellowish-green with undersides downy.

Pollination group 3.

Gladstone

An attractive, very fragrant, very early dessert apple, season late July to mid August. It is deliciously sweet and juicy when picked and immediately devoured but should not be kept a moment longer as it becomes soft and dry. The flesh is white tinged green, soft and coarse-textured. It was introduced in 1868 by Mr. Jackson of Blakedown Nursery in Worcestershire (UK) as Jackson’s Seedling, said to be a chance seedling originating about 1780. In 1883 it received a First Class Certificate from the RHS after which it was re-named Mr. Gladstone, after the Prime Minister. The ‘Mr’ is now generally omitted. It makes a moderately vigorous, spreading tree which is a spur and tip bearer. It crops well but can be biennial. Picking time late July and early August.

Size Medium, 63 x 54 mm (21/2 x 21/8").

Shape Round-conical. Rounded at base. Large well-rounded ribs with one sometimes larger. Irregular. Can be lop-sided. Can be five-crowned at apex.

Skin Variable in colour. Pale yellowish-green, partly to almost completely covered with deep red or brownish-red flush. Rather inconspicuous stripes of brownish-crimson. Some fruits can have a much more streaked appearance without the dense flush. Occasionally a bold wide stripe of yellow skin colour can show through the flush. Lenticels conspicuous as grey-brown russet dots on flush or purple-brown dots on green skin. Skin smooth becoming greasy after picking.

Stalk Medium thick (3mm). Vari...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• The Identification of Apples
• The Plates
• Growing Apples
• Classification Table
• Index of Apples
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• Copyright