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L2 Reverend Wilks Apple Tree Details

Grid Ref L2
Tree Type Apple
Variety Reverend Wilks
Rootstock M25
Date Planted 23 January 2011
(14 yrs 9 mths 27 days ago)
Tree Description A large creamy-white apple, tender and cooking to a pale yellow froth. Excellent for baking, hardly needs sugar. Crops heavily, but often biennial. A small tree with short shoots. Disease resistant. A summer and autumn cooking apple.
Comments Chosen by JH. Following enthusiastic advice from a friend a few years ago JH planted a Reverend Wilks in his garden. It cropped well, and when cooked was delicious in all apple dishes. The friend had said that it was different to any other cooking apple.

Grafted in situ.

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More quotesThe greatest apple experience of my life was a Queen Cox apple: when we bit into it we knew we were eating something extraordinary: its perfume, the balance of sweet and acid, the juice, the texture. My God, it was simply divine. (Raymond Blanc, Le Manoir aux Quatre Saisons)
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