Potts seedling
| Potts seedling | |
|---|---|
| Art | Cultivated apple ( Malus domestica ) |
| origin | Ashton-under-Lyme , Lancashire , England |
| breeder | Samuel Potts |
| Launch | 1849 |
| List of apple varieties | |
Potts seedling , also called Potts Seedling , is a cultivar of the cultivated apple ( Malus domestica ). The green / yellow autumn apple was widely used as a cooking apple in the United Kingdom in the 19th century , but is now almost impossible to find.
The apple is yellowish-green in color. The tree itself grows weakly, the fruit is medium to large in size. Pott's seedling is ready to harvest in early September and ready to eat in September and October.
When cooked, the apple crumbles into a puree. Its acid content is sufficient to prevent it from browning quickly after cutting, but the cook doesn't need a lot of sugar to balance the acid. The apple is diploid and therefore suitable as a pollinator for other varieties.
Potts seedling was grown by Samuel Potts in Lancashire in the 1840s. It is believed to be a seedling from an imported American apple variety. He became popular through the gardener John Nelson from Rotherham , who advertised and distributed the apple from 1850. It spread especially in home-grown and for the local market. At the beginning of the 20th century, the weakly growing tree was described as "ideal for the city garden". Pott's seedling is one of the two varieties, along with Cox Orange , that is suspected of being the mother of the James Grieve variety, which is common worldwide . While the color speaks in favor of the Cox Orange, the Potts Seedling's taste and certain properties such as the shape of the apple or the susceptibility to impacts, which Potts Seedling and James Grieve have in common.
Remarks
- ↑ a b Potts Seedling , orangepippin.com
- ^ Johann-Heinrich Rolff: Der Apfel - variety names and synonyms , BoD - Books on Demand, 2001 ISBN 3831109567 p. 316
- ^ Joan Morgan: The New Book Of Apples. Ebury Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4481-7736-3 .
- ^ Walter Wright: The New Gardening Applewood Books, 2008 (1913) ISBN 1429013265 p. 299