{"id":247,"date":"2009-09-27T13:22:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T12:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/?p=247"},"modified":"2009-09-27T13:22:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T12:22:22","slug":"apple-egremont-russet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/2009\/09\/apple-egremont-russet\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple – Egremont Russet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Egremont Russet apple is a classic English Victorian variety, originating in England in 1872.\u00a0 Believed to have been raised by the Earl of Egremont in Petworth<\/a>, Sussex, England.<\/p>\n

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Egremont Russet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This medium sized desert apple has a dull golden skin flecked with yellow and is the third most common apple in cultivation in England and Wales.<\/p>\n

The flesh of the Egremont Russet is quite dry but juicy with a\u00a0 sharp-sweet, delicately “nutty” flavour. The flesh becomes drier with keeping.<\/p>\n


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Uses:<\/strong> Desert
\n Parents:<\/strong> Unknown
\n Flowers:<\/strong> Mid May
\n Picking:<\/strong> October
\n Natural Storage:<\/strong> October to December.<\/p>\n

The Egremont Russet can be found growing in the orchards of Acorn Bank House<\/a>, Temple Sowerby, Cumbria.
\n Young trees available from Adams Apples<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Egremont Russet apple is a classic English Victorian variety, originating in England in 1872.\u00a0 Believed to have been raised by the Earl of Egremont in Petworth, Sussex, England. This medium sized desert apple has a dull golden skin flecked with yellow and is the third most common apple in cultivation in England and Wales. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[403],"tags":[434,500,414,410,485,499,427,497,413,484,411,45,40,48,498,436,100,418],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-apples-fruit-and-veg","tag-acorn","tag-adams-apples","tag-caption","tag-desert","tag-egremont","tag-england-and-wales","tag-flesh","tag-golden-skin","tag-natural-storage","tag-orchards","tag-parents","tag-petworth","tag-russet-apple","tag-sussex","tag-sussex-england","tag-temple-sowerby","tag-trees","tag-unknown-flowers","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/author\/mogsy\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}