Applevariety
Sissons's Worksop Newtown
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape, raised in about 1910; tart, mildly tart and soft. Picked in early October.
Origin · Worksop, Nottinghamshire
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid to acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes flushed faint orangeBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 53-58 mmFruit height 44-51 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet base, white dots round eye
Origin & family
Where Sissons's Worksop Newtown began
Recorded origin
Worksop, Nottinghamshire
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid to acid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- parentage
- Newtown Pippin x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 53-58 mm
- over colour
- sometimes flushed faint orange
- russet type
- russet base, white dots round eye
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 44-51 mm
- flesh texture
- soft, coarse
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.