Applevariety
Sowman's Seedling
A cooking apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape, raised in 1914 and named in 1927; tart and firm. Picked in mid-August.
Origin · County Horticulture Station, Hutton, Lancashire
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- medium-firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 67.00 mmHeight 54.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Sowman's Seedling began
Recorded origin
County Horticulture Station, Hutton, Lancashire
Sowman's Seedling’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Sowman's Seedling
County Horticulture Station, Hutton, Lancashire
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 67.00 mm
- height
- 54.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- medium-firm
- parentage
- Grenadier x Ecklinville
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.