Description

• Harvest: Mid
• Description: Large sized fruit
• Skin: Greenish yellow with prominent ribs from top to bottom
• Flesh: White
• Vigour:
• Flowering Group: 3
• Pollination:
• Taste: With a sweet subacid flavour that also cooks well to a beautiful aromatic fluff. Eating it fresh is pleasantly acid too
• Storage: Stores well
• Uses: Eating and cooking
• Background: A most impressively large apple named after a Scottish pomologist, Dr Robert Hogg, who compiled the Herefordshire Pomona. Raised in Sussex and introduced around 1880 after receiving a Royal Horticultural Society first-class certificate following trials. It appears to be an offspring of Caville Blanc d’Hiver