Keswick
- From
- Gleaston
- Description
- Hogg states that: "This excellent apple was first discovered growing among a quantity of rubbish behind a wall at Gleaston Castle, near Ulverstone, and was first brought into notice by one John Sander, a nurseryman at Keswick, who, having propagated it, sent it out under the name of Keswick Codlin.
- Flesh quality
- fine, tender, very juicy, brisk subacid, good for culinary use, too acid for dessert unless very ripe
- Flesh color
- white
- Skin quality
- thin, tough, smooth, waxy
- Skin color
- green, yellow, blushed
- Sizes
- large, above medium
- Shape
- round, unequal sides, ribbed, oblong, conical
- Keeping quality
- It is not adapted for storage, its commercial limit in ordinary storage being September and early October.
- General quality
- Excellent for culinary use
- Uses
- table, kitchen, culinary
- Eating season starts in
- August
- Eating season ends in
- October
- Also known as
- Codlin, Keswick
- Keswick
- Keswick Codlin
- Keswick Codling
- No. 225
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Spencer A. Beach, The Apples of New York, vol. 2 (Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1905), 116.