Fall-winter.
England, 19th century. Introduced by Kirke of Brompton and previously known as Golden Winter Pearmain, first recorded in 1800.
A fine dessert apple with a complex and aromatic flavor. Medium-sized apples are roundish-oblate and golden yellow with flushes of orange, streaks of red and prominent russet dots. Long slender stem in a deep funnel-shaped cavity. Ripens in October and keeps for a couple of months.
Bears annually in our central Maine trial orchard and has shown some natural disease resistance with no spray. Not to be confused with the French apple Reine de Reinette (translated as ‘Queen of the Pippins’), which has been popularized by Scott Farm Orchard in Vermont. Z4. Maine Grown.
(Semi-dwarf: 2½–5' bare-root trees)