Lady Henniker
syn. Henniker, Lady Hennicker, Ledi Genniker
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by John Perkins, gardener to Lord Henniker, from a pip found in cider must at Thornham hall, Eye, Suffolk between 1840 and 1850. Introduced in 1873. It received a First Class Certificate from the RHS in 1873. Fruits have firm, coarse-textured, rather dry flesh with a fairly acid but fair flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 23rd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 78.00 mm
- Height
- 65.00 mm
- Ribbing
- medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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