Winter Hawthornden
Apple
Winter Hawthornden
Origin / History
Efforts have been made in vain to discover the history of this apple, although it "must be a recent production" (Herefordshire Pomona, 1885). Described there under the synonym New Hawthornden as "altogether not unlike the old Hawthornden in appearance." Veitch (1911) says it much resembles the old Hawthornden but is larger and later, "a very handsome variety."
Tree
Forms an excellent pyramid (Herefordshire Pomona); a large pyramid, very suitable for orchard culture (Veitch). An abundant and early bearer (Herefordshire Pomona); a good cropper (Veitch).
Fruit
Size: Large.
Form: Roundish ovate.
Stem: Stalk long and slender.
Cavity: Not described in source.
Calyx: Eye closed.
Basin: Not described in source.
Skin: Greenish, with a brownish red tinge on the side next the sun.
Dots: Not described in source.
Flesh and flavor: Flesh white, very tender, juicy; flavor fine subacid. Veitch calls the fruit "large and good."
Core and seeds: Not described in source.
Season
December to January, in both the Herefordshire Pomona and Veitch.
Uses
A first-rate culinary apple (Herefordshire Pomona).
Subtypes / Variants
Not described in source.
Other
Not described in source.
Book Sources
Described in 1 period pomological work
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)
— Woolhope Naturalists Field Club, The Herefordshire Pomona (1885)
- WINTER HAWTHORNDEN.
[Syn : New Hawthornden.]
Efforts have been made in vain to discover the history of this apple, although it must be a recent production.
Description.—Fruit, large, roundish ovate, and altogether not unlike the old Hawthornden in appearance. Skin, greenish, with a brownish red tinge on the side next the sun. Eye, closed. Stalk, long and slender. Flesh, white, very tender, juicy, and with a fine subacid flavour.
A first-rate culinary apple ; in season from December to January.
The tree forms an excellent pyramid, and is an abundant and early bearer.
— James Veitch & Sons, Veitch's Fruit Trees (1911) (1911)large and good. much resembles the old Hawthornden but larger and later, a very handsome variety and a good cropper, it forms a large pyramid and is very suitable for orchard culture ... Dec. & Jan.