Howgate Wonder
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1915-16 by G. Wratton at Howgate Lane, Bembridge, Isle of Wight. It was introduced in 1932 by Stuart Low Co. Received an Award of merit from the RHS in 1929. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh which is quite sweet when ripe with a faint aromatic flavour. Cooks well.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 95.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 79.00 mm
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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