Applevariety
Duke of Devonshire
Also known as Devonshire Duke +4
Devonshire Duke · Duc de Devonshire · Herzog von Devonshire · Holker · Holker Pippin
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and yellow skin, oblong in shape, raised in 1835 and introduced in about 1875; nutty, crisp, firm and dry. Picked in early October.
Origin · Holker Hall, Lancashire
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- nuttyrich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour Yellow
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 60.00 mmHeight 50.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Duke of Devonshire began
Recorded origin
Holker Hall, Lancashire
Duke of Devonshire’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Duke of Devonshire
Holker Hall, Lancashire
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Duke of Devonshire → Polly ProsserParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 60.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 50.00 mm
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- absent
- synonyms
- Devonshire Duke, Duc de Devonshire, Herzog von Devonshire, Holker, Holker Pippin
- father to
- Polly Prosser
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.