Court of Wick

Measured Phenotype

Fruit height

53.9 mm

source: NFC

Fruit width

61.2 mm

source: NFC

Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.

Court of Wick is a below-medium-sized, yellow dessert apple with orange flush and russet freckles, featuring yellow, crisp, juicy flesh with a rich, highly flavored taste comparable to the Golden Pippin. The tree is hardy, healthy, and abundantly productive, succeeding on various soils and resistant to blight and canker. It originated at Court of Wick in Somersetshire as a seedling of the Golden Pippin and is valuable for use from October to March.

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Origin & History

Status

commercial

Origin type

open pollinated seedling

First introduced

1790 · Messrs. Wood, of Huntingdon

References

UK National Fruit Collection

1307

Wikidata

Q41776139

Cited authority (Hogg 1851)

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