conical shaped fruit. Skin – red-brown on green-yellow background. Flesh – green-creamy white. Taste: Firm, fine-textured, globose, Mannington’s Pearmain Apple Harvest: Mid Description: Medium sized broad, moderately juicy flesh with a slightly aromatic flavour. Uses: Eating (Dessert) Background: Grown from seed found in cider pomace in the garden of Mr Turley, Sussex, Uckfield, UK in about 1770. It was introduced by John Mannington in 1847.