Yellow Ingestrie
Apple
USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Yellow Ingestrie
Origin / History
An old English variety. (Warder notes it has been propagated pretty extensively in the Northwest, and though too small for a profitable market fruit, has been found desirable on account of its early and abundant productiveness. Elliott lists it as "Foreign.")
Tree
Early and abundant in bearing. (Warder.) No further tree characteristics described in sources.
Fruit
Size: Small. (All sources agree.)
Form: Warder describes the fruit as globular, truncated, and regular; Downing describes it as roundish oblate.
Skin / Surface: Surface smooth (Warder). Color is described as lemon yellow (Warder), clear bright gold color without red (Downing), and clear yellow (Elliott).
Dots: Minute. (Warder.)
Stem: Long and slender. (Warder.)
Cavity: Acute, brown. (Warder.)
Calyx / Eye: Eye medium, open; segments reflexed. (Warder.)
Basin: Wide, shallow, folded. (Warder.)
Flesh / Flavor: Flesh whitish yellow, breaking, juicy (Warder). Downing describes the flesh as tender and delicate, with a plentiful juice when freshly gathered from the tree. Flavor sub-acid (Warder); crisp and spicy (Elliott).
Core / Seeds: Core medium, oval, regular, closed, clasping. Seeds few, large, pale. (Warder.)
Season
September–October (Warder); October (Downing, Elliott).
Uses
Cooking (Warder). Elliott notes the variety is "not valued," consistent with Warder's assessment that it is too small for profitable market use, though prized for early and abundant bearing.
Subtypes / Variants
Not described in sources.
Other
Not described in sources.
Book Sources
Described in 3 period pomological works
Nursery Catalog Sources
Found in 2 catalogs (1900–1911) from England
- George Bunyard & Co. , Royal Nurseries, Maidstone, Kent , England — 1900
- James Veitch & Sons , Ltd., Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, London (also Coombe Wood, Langley, and Feltham) , England — 1911
View original book sources (3)
— John A. Warder, American Pomology: Apples (1867)Yellow Ingestrie.
This old English variety has been propagated pretty extensively in the Northwest, and though too small for a profitable market fruit, it has been found desirable on account of its early and abundant productiveness.
Fruit small, globular, truncated, regular; Surface smooth, lemon yellow; Dots minute.
Basin wide, shallow, folded; Eye medium, open; Segments reflexed.
Cavity acute, brown; Stem long, slender.
Core medium, oval, regular, closed, clasping; Seeds few, large, pale; Flesh whitish yellow, breaking, juicy; Flavor sub-acid; Quality barely good; Use, cooking; Season, September, October.
— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)Yellow Ingestrie.
Fruit small, roundish oblate, clear bright gold color, without red. Flesh tender and delicate, with a plentiful juice when freshly gathered from the tree. Good. October.
— F.R. Elliott, The Western Fruit Book (1865)Yellow Ingestre. Foreign. Small, clear yellow, crisp, spicy, not valued. October.