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Sissons's Worksop Newtown
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in about 1910 by Mr Sissons, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Fruits have soft, coarse, greenish white flesh with a subacid to acid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Newtown Pippin x Unknown
Accession No.
1955 - 143
- Accession name
- Sissons's Worksop Newtown
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- medium-large 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019