Winter Lading

Origin/History

A sauce apple (cooking variety) from Sussex, England.

Tree

Not described in source.

Fruit

Size: Medium

Form: Roundish conical

Skin: Green, with patches and dots of thin russet

Flesh: Greenish white, juicy, tender, sweet subacid

Stem: Not described in source

Cavity: Not described in source

Calyx: Not described in source

Basin: Not described in source

Core/Seeds: Not described in source

Season

October, December

Uses

Sauce apple (cooking variety)

Subtypes/Variants

Not described in source.

Other

Not described in source.

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Source: A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900), citing Hogg.