Early Victoria apple

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A name for Emneth Early, a medium-sized cooking apple with yellowish-green skin first recorded in 1899 and raised in Emneth, near Wisbech in Cambridgeshire by Mr W Lynn as a cross between Lord Grosvenor and Keswick Codlin. It was awareded the Royal Horticultural Society First Class Certificate in the same year. The greenish-white flesh cooks to down to AC fluffy purée. This is an early-season apple which is harvested from August in South-East England and is at its best from August to September.

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