Cornish Gilliflower
Chance seedling
The Cornwalliser clove apple, also Cornish or Cornish Gillyflower Gilli Flower, Red Flower Gilli, Calville d ' Angleterre or clove apple is a sort of culture apple (Malus domestica). The chance seedling discovered in a garden in Cornwall suitable for storage and has an intense floral aroma. Therefore, the Calville is particularly suitable as an eating apple.
Although the apple is relatively undemanding in cultivation, and holds as a lover apple for 200 years, the clove apple has never been grown on a commercial scale. The reason for this is above all the small amount of fruit, carrying a tree.
Description
The fruits are comparatively large, and colored red on a green background. Their shape is conical and ribbed pronounced, thereby almost symmetrically in the longitudinal axis. The flesh itself is cream-colored and firm. Only after prolonged storage, the flesh is more tender, and thus easier to eat. The skin of the apple is smooth and only weakly russeting. Also it has a few brown points.
The fruits grow at the tips of the branches. The tree is diploid and is therefore suitable to pollinate other trees. It blooms mid to late in Europe. The leaves are small, oval and narrow. On the top they are dark - green on the underside.
The harvest is late in the season, and takes place in Austria in the second Öktoberhälfte instead. The trees bear only a few apples. The apple trees are compared to other varieties of medium to no, and take only moderate fruit.
The ripe to eat the apple in the fresh stock is located in Germany from December to March. It thus is a classic winter apple, which reaches its full flavor until Christmas. The flesh is sweet and aromatic, its striking scent reminiscent of flowers. Mainly due to its aroma Hogg describes him in 1860 as The Royal Horticultural Society was expressed in 1842 in the catalog of the plants in her garden similar to " one of the best apples. ": Does bad. But the best of all apples. "
Name and origin
The English name is derived, according to Robert Cornish Gilli Flower Hogg from a corruption of the French word girofle - the country Elke - reminiscent of the scent of fresh apple aufgeschnittete. The German name, in turn, is a direct translation of it.
When the apple was grown exactly is unknown. In Cornwall, the farmers cultivated habitually seedlings, which they then integrated into the hedges of their farms. Apples, which are particularly proven in taste, were passed on and augmented. However, they rarely left their local origin in Cornwall. The Cornwalliser clove apple was one of the few apples that were known for their intense flavor and outside of Cornwall.
About Truro in Cornwall, he became known in 1813, when Sir Christopher Hawkins discovered him, and sent to the Royal Horticultural Society. In his accompanying letter, he stated that the apple was found 10 or 15 years ago in Cornwall. The July flower apple, as he was then called, has a very striking pleasant fragrance. Particular, however, Hawkins praised the taste of the fruit. The team recommended the apple and drew its members from Hawkins with a silver medal for his efforts.
The apple spread quickly, so that the Royal Horticultural Society has already received 1826 message from cultivation in the Alsatian Bollwiller under the name Calville d ' Angleterre. In Germany he was still in 1841, the " new species. "
From Cornwalliser clove apple probably stems from the variety Cornish Pine, which is characterized by a similar taste as the clove apple.