Description
- Harvest: Late
- Description: Spur bearer. Broad globose conical shaped. Large sized fruit
- Skin: Red on yellow background
- Flesh: Yellowish
- Vigour: V2
- Flowering Group: 3
- Pollination: Triploid, need other varieties for pollination
- Taste: Fruits have somewhat soft, slightly juicy flesh with a sweet and good aromatic flavour
- Storage:
- Uses: Eating, cooking and cider making
- Background: Thought to have been raised near Washington, Warren County, New Jersey, USA. Brought to Tompkins County, New York in 1804 by Jacob Wycoff who named it King. It was renamed King of Tompkins County in about 1855