Reverend W. Wilks
syn. Reverend Wilks
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Veitch, Chelsea, England. First recorded in 1904. Received the Award of Merit in 1904 and a First Class Certificate in 1910 from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits have crisp, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a subacid flavour. Cooks well.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 88.00 mm
- Height
- 76.00 mm
- Ribbing
- weak
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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