Dumelow's Seedling
syn. Beauty, Belle de Vennes, Belle des Vennes, de Sutton, Doncklaer, Doncklaer Seedling, Doncklaer's Seedling, Donclaer, Donclaer's Seedling, Duc de Wellington, Duke of Wellington, Dumeller's Crab, Dumelon's Seedling, Dumelow, Dumelow Seedling, Dumelow's Crab, Dumelow's Pippin, Dumelow's Wildling, Dumelows Crab, Dummelow's Seedling, Duncklaer's Seedling, Dunclaers Seedling, Durmmelous Seedling, Fair Maid of Taunton, Hawthornden d'Hiver, Hawthornden Winter, Lord Duncan, Lord Hampton's Wonder, Normanton Wonder, Pomme de Sutton, Reinette Wellington, Souring, Souring Apple, Supson FrangT, Supson FrangTe, Sutton Beauty, Wellington, Wellington Apple, Wellington Pippin, Wellington Reinette, Wellington's, Wellington's Apple, Wellington's Reinette, Wellingtons Reinette, Winter Hawthornden, Wunder von Normanton
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Mr Dumelow (or Dumeller) at Shakerstone, Leicestershire. The original tree was growing in 1800. It was exhibited as Dumelow's Crab in 1818, and renamed Wellington in 1819 or 1820. Fruits have very firm, crisp, juicy flesh which is extremely acid. Cooks well.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 15th May (full) · 23rd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 67.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 53.50 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- absent
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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