A variety of eating apple flushed blushed with scarlet. John Standish was a nursery man in Ascot in Berkshire where he probably raised this apple around 1873. It wss introduced commercially commercially by Isaac House & Sons of Bristol in 1921 and received Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit in 1922. This late-season variety is harvested from mid-October in South-East England and is at its best from December to February.
John West was a Scot from Linthligow who travelled to Oregon in 1868 to set up a salmont cannery on the Colombia River. He called his company John West Foods.The first fish he dealt with were salted and shipped in barrels via Cape Horn to feed industrial workers in the north of Britain. This all changed when he designed his own automatic filling machine for tin cans, and the whole process was hugely speeded up. Twenty years later the rights to the company name were bought by two Liverpool-based businessmen, Pelling and Stanley as John West moved into gold prospecting in California. They in turn started to import tinned salmon to Britain in 1892. In 1963 Lord Leverhulme, the founder of Unilever, merged Pelling Stanley & Co with two others outfits canning foods and gave the resulting company the name of John West Foods Ltd. It rapidly expanded with an export network of 60 countries. In 1997 Heinz acquired John West Foods Ltd and it was then bought by MW Brands in 2006 (with thanks to Emily Ford).
A variety of red eating apple. It was raised by HL Lantz at Iowa Agricultural Experimental Station in Ames, Iowa in 1923 and is a cross between Jonathan and Delicious. This late-season variety is harvested from mid-October in South-East England, stored and is at its best from November to February.
A large, yellow, American eating apple, mottled with green and bright red, with crisp, juicy, creamy white flesh. It is also a good cooker and keeps well. Increasingly grown in the UK, it was raised in 1943 at New York State Agricultural Experimental Station in Geneva, New York and introduced commercially in 1968. It is a cross between Golden Delicious and Jonathan. It received the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit in 1987. This late-season variety is harvested from mid-October in South-East England, is stored and is at its best from November to January. It is now widely grown.
A good all-round apple which arose on a farm in Woodstock in the Catskills in Ulster County, New York State belonging to Mr Philip Rick some time before 1826. It was introduced commercially into the UK and exhibited in 1864. It has tough, bright red skin streaked with orange and creamy white flesh, sometimes tinged with red, and is juicy, slightly tart, suitable for pies and eating raw. It does not keep well. This apple is better in the United States than in the UK. This late-season variety is harvested from early October in South-East England and is at its best from November to January.
