Northern Greening

Apple

Northern Greening

Origin / History

Origin probably English. Known in the seventeenth century.

Tree

Growth vigorous, upright; very fertile (Bunyard). A good bearer, forming a medium-sized pyramid or standard (Veitch). Leaf long, dark green, boldly curved serrate, upheld and upfolded (Bunyard).

Fruit

Size: Medium; 2¼ by 2¼ (Bunyard).

Form: Oval, conical, regular.

Stem: Fairly long, often with a swelling at one side.

Cavity: Deepish.

Calyx: Eye closed.

Basin: Deep, rather ribbed.

Skin: Pea green to pale yellow with red stripes and faint brown flush.

Dots: Not described in source.

Flesh and flavor: Flesh tender, greenish, acid (Bunyard); firm and sub-acid (Veitch). Veitch calls it "a variety of first quality."

Core and seeds: Not described in source.

Season

November to May. Bunyard gives "till April."

Uses

Culinary. Bunyard calls it "still one of the best late cooking apples."

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)

Nursery Catalog Sources

Found in 3 catalogs (1900–1913) from England, Illinois

Central Experimental Farm , Dominion Department of Agriculture, Agassiz, British Columbia (under test; Bulletin No. 3, Second Series) — 1900
James Veitch & Sons , Ltd., Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, London (also Coombe Wood, Langley, and Feltham) , England — 1911
Benjamin Buckman (personal inventory) , Farmingdale , Illinois — 1913

View original book sources (2)

NORTHERN GREENING. Her. Pom., 43. F., Verte du Nord ; G., Gruener Englischer Pepping. (John Apple, Walmer Court.) Culinary, till April, medium, 2¼ by 2¼, oval, conical, regular. Colour, pea green to pale yellow with red stripes and faint brown flush. Flesh, tender, greenish, acid. Eye, closed in a deep rather ribbed basin. Stem, fairly long, in a deepish cavity, often with a swelling at one side. Growth, vigorous, upright ; very fertile. Leaf, long, dark green, boldly curved serrate, upheld and upfolded. Origin, probably English. Known in the seventeenth century. Still one of the best late cooking apples.

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

medium size, firm and sub-acid, a variety of first quality, the tree is a good bearer and forms a medium-sized pyramid or standard ... Nov. to May

— James Veitch & Sons, Veitch's Fruit Trees (1911) (1911)

Cowarne Queening Cowarne Quoining Gruener Englischer Pepping Grüner Englischer Pepping John Apple Old Northern Greening Old Nothern Greening Verte du Nord Walmer Court Robin