Dumelow's Seedling
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Mr Dumelow (or Dumeller) at Shakerstone, Leicestershire. The original tree was growing in 1800. It was exhibited as Dumelow's Crab in 1818, and renamed Wellington in 1819 or 1820. Fruits have very firm, crisp, juicy flesh which is extremely acid. Cooks well.
Synonyms:
Beauty, Belle de Vennes, Belle des Vennes, de Sutton, Doncklaer, Doncklaer Seedling, Doncklaer's Seedling, Donclaer, Donclaer's Seedling, Duc de Wellington, Duke of Wellington, Dumeller's Crab, Dumelon's Seedling, Dumelow, Dumelow Seedling, Dumelow's Crab, Dumelow's Pippin, Dumelow's Wildling, Dumelows Crab, Dummelow's Seedling, Duncklaer's Seedling, Dunclaers Seedling, Durmmelous Seedling, Fair Maid of Taunton, Hawthornden d'Hiver, Hawthornden Winter, Lord Duncan, Lord Hampton's Wonder, Normanton Wonder, Pomme de Sutton, Reinette Wellington, Souring, Souring Apple, Supson FrangT, Supson FrangTe, Sutton Beauty, Wellington, Wellington Apple, Wellington Pippin, Wellington Reinette, Wellington's, Wellington's Apple, Wellington's Reinette, Wellingtons Reinette, Winter Hawthornden, Wunder von Normanton
Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Parentage:
Northern Greening x Unknown
Mother to:
Hounslow Wonder
Cottenham Seedling
Baron Ward
Newton Wonder
Father to:
Belvoir Seedling
Monarch
Lane's Prince Albert
Size
medium 2
Type
Culinary 2
Shape
Flat globose 2
Height
53.50 mm 2
Width
67.00 mm 2
Ribbing
absent 2
Ground Colour
Whitish yellow 2
Over Colour (Amount)
low 2
Over Colour
Red 2
Over Colour (Pattern)
mottled 2
Russet
very low 2
Greasiness
Medium 2
Firmness
firm 2
Crunch
crisp 2
Flesh Colour
White 2
Accession name
Dumelow's Seedling
Flowering time
9th May 10% flowering
15th May Full (80%) flowering
23rd May 90% petal fall
Picking time
Early October 1
References:
1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register