old pearmain
Description
The earliest recorded English apple, dating from before 1200AD, as Pearmain or Pearmaine, with many similar names since. It has become known as 'old' Pearmain in modem collections, starting with that of Alexander Forbes, gardener at Levens Hall Nursery, Kendal in 1820, who listed it as 'Old Pearmain'. A dessert apple ripe in November, keeping to January, medium sized and distinctively long and conical, with green-yellow skin streaked and blushed red. Although it is often said that 'pearmains' are pear shaped, this is untrue. A pear is wider at the crown than at the base. Apples are the opposite (except for Pear Apple). The flesh is yellowish, tender, juicy, sweet and full flavoured.
The earliest recorded English apple, dating from before 1200AD, as Pearmain or Pearmaine, with many similar names since. It has become known as 'old' Pearmain in modem collections, starting with that of Alexander Forbes, gardener at Levens Hall Nursery, Kendal in 1820, who listed it as 'Old Pearmain'. A dessert apple ripe in November, keeping to January, medium sized and distinctively long and conical, with green-yellow skin streaked and blushed red. Although it is often said that 'pearmains' are pear shaped, this is untrue. A pear is wider at the crown than at the base. Apples are the opposite (except for Pear Apple). The flesh is yellowish, tender, juicy, sweet and full flavoured.
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Latin name: Malus domestica 'Old Pearmain'
Type: dessert Uses: eating, apple juice Flavour: pleasant, rich Pollination Group: 4 |
Flowering time: 6 May (start) 11 May (full) 19 May (over)
Picking time: Early October Eating/storing time: November - January Size: large Rootstock: M25 Year planted: 2012 |