A UNIQUE APPLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19026, 28 May 1936, Page 15

A UNIQUE APPLE

MILD QUINCE FLAVOUR A CHANGE SEED LINE Cl SHORN E CURIOSITY Ail apple with a mild quince flavour has been [omul in a Gisborne garden, h is unique in horticulture. Mr. 11. 11. DeCosta picked it to-day from a tree growing in his riverside garden, anti handed the apple to a reporter. It was taken to Mr. I'. Everett, irovernment. orchard instructor, who said that it was either an Hpp’s seedling or a. chance seedling of no commercial value.

Later in the day. a better sample in improved condition was. shown to Mr. Everett, who detected a mild quince flavour. This was most unusual, he said, and he had never known such a flavour in an apple before. •‘While 1 cannot regard it as a firstclass dessert,” he said, “it may prove an excellent cooker, having the advantage of the- quince flavour for those who prefer it."

It is an apple of a waxen yellow colour, and Mr. DeCosta explained that he grew it from a chance seedling washed down bv the Wainiuta River several years ago." It had now grown into a tairlv large tree, and hud been in hearing for three, to four years. Mr. DeCosta said lie was willing to give cuttings lo anyone who desired to grow this unique variety.