Chelmsford Wonder is a cooking
apple
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cultivar
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.
Raised at
Chelmsford
Chelmsford () is a city in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England. It is the county town of Essex and one of three cities in the county, along with Colchester and Southend-on-Sea. It is located north-east of London ...
about 1870 and introduced by local nurseryman William Saltmarsh in 1892. A large long keeping yellow-skinned apple with diffuse orange pink flush.
[Morgan, J. & Richards, A. (Illus. Dowle, E.) (2002), ''The New Book of Apples'', ] The Chelmsford Wonder received an Award of Merit and a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1891. Still grown in
Essex
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orchards.
It is also grown at
Brogdale
Brogdale is a hamlet in Kent, England, immediately south of the M2 motorway (Great Britain), M2 motorway, south of Faversham. It is one of several hamlets making up the civil parishes in England, civil parish of Ospringe and is in the Borough ...
National Fruit Collection in Kent.
References
Apple cultivars
Chelmsford Wonder apple
Cooking apples
British apples
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