Encore

Apple

Encore

Origin / History

Raised by Mr. Charles Ross (Warner's King × Northern Greening). Introduced by Messrs. Cheal in 1908. Listed in Gard. Chron., 1907, p. 2. Bunyard (1920) calls it "a very promising fruit"; the George Bunyard & Co. catalog of 1914 calls it "a very promising novelty after the style of Lane's Prince Albert."

Tree

Growth vigorous; fertile. Leaf oval, pale, slightly upfolded, undulating, finely serrate.

Fruit

Size: Large to very large; 3½ by 2½ (Bunyard, 1920); "very large" (1914 catalog).

Form: Much flattened, nearly regular, oblong round.

Stem: Very short.

Cavity: Deep, narrow, russet.

Calyx: Eye closed or a little open.

Basin: Broad, ribbed.

Skin: Grass-green, changing to pale yellow, with occasional brown flush and stripes (Bunyard, 1920); reddish stripes and flush (1914 catalog).

Dots: Not described in source.

Flesh and flavor: Fairly soft, greenish-white, slightly acid.

Core and seeds: Not described in source.

Season

Culinary fruit keeping till March (1914 catalog) or till June (Bunyard, 1920). Bunyard writes that "heavy and keeps with me later than either Bramley's Seedling or Lane's Prince Albert."

Uses

Culinary; cooks well (1914 catalog).

Subtypes / Variants

Not described in source.

Other

Not described in source.

Book Sources

Described in 1 period pomological work

Bunyard, A Handbook of Hardy Fruits (1920)

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ENCORE. Gard. Chron., 1907, p. 2. Culinary, till June, large, 3½ by 2½, much flattened, nearly regular, oblong round. Colour, grass-green, changing to pale yellow, with occasional brown flush and stripes. Flesh, fairly soft, greenish-white, slightly acid. Eye, closed or a little open, in a broad ribbed basin. Stem, very short in a deep narrow, russet cavity. Growth, vigorous; fertile. Leaf, oval, pale, slightly upfolded, undulating, finely serrate. Origin, raised by Mr. Charles Ross (Warner's King × Northern Greening). Introduced by Messrs. Cheal, in 1908. A very promising fruit, heavy and keeps with me later than either Bramley's Seedling or Lane's Prince Albert.

— E.A. Bunyard, A Handbook of Hardy Fruits (1920)

Culinary, till March. Very large, reddish stripes and flush, cooks well; a very promising novelty after the style of Lane's Prince Albert. Raised by Mr. Chas. Ross. (Warner's King × Northern Greening). Introduced 1908.

— George Bunyard & Co., George Bunyard Catalog of Fruit Trees (1914) (1914)