Applevariety
John Huggett
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1940; sweet, aromatic and firm. Picked in late August.
Origin · Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- medium-firm
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 82.50 mmHeight 67.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where John Huggett began
Recorded origin
Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire
John Huggett’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
John Huggett
Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Allington Pippin → John HuggettParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 82.50 mm
- height
- 67.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- medium-firm
- parentage
- Allington Pippin x Unknown
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.