Hambling's Seedling apple

/HAMB-lingz SEED-lingz/
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A variety of round, yellowish-green cooking apple striped and flushed blushed with red which was raised in Dunstable in Bedfordshire by Major EJ Hambling. It was introduced commercially by Mr Bunyard of Maidstone in Kent in 1894 and was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society First Class Certificate in 1892. It cooks down to a golden purée. This late-season variety is harvested from mid-October in South-East England and is at its best from November to March.

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