Newton Wonder apple

Newton Wonder apple identification images

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USDA identification images for Newton Wonder

The identification paintings in the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection span the years 1886 to 1942.

Citation: U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705.

Visitor reviews

• 02 Oct 2024 

  I used to eat these apples straight from the tree in my Gramothers orchard in Penshurst Kent, I was a child, the apples were as big as my head.
• 21 May 2023 

  Grown at home on one of the larger rootstocks in permanent partial shade of a very large sycamore. Crops reliability and heavily with healthy classic cooking apples which slowly sweeten after picking and can (slight stretch) be used as an eating apple after some time (weeks in cool storage). Seems very disease resistant and has done well in a heavy clay soil. Excellent overall cooking apple.
• 12 May 2023 

  I have seen this cultivar in the north east of Scotland
• 30 Aug 2022 

  We had one in Duffield when we moved there in 1953 which must have been 40 years old or more as it was huge and I spent half my childhood up in the branches. Lasted another 50 years and collapsed . Excellent apples very other year.
• 30 Jun 2022 

  My great grandad was one of the couple of men who found the seedling on the roof of the pub in King’s Newton. The seedling was then planted into the pub garden where it still stands. He didn’t actually get it off the roof, I don’t imagine, as he had a wooden leg, having lost his in a thrashing machine in his early teans. He lived in Melbourne all his life where he was a tailor, until retirement in Chellaston. He died in the very early ‘50s.
• 14 Oct 2013  ENGLAND, United Kingdom

  We have had an amazing crop this year, and have been eating straight from the tree since mid/late September. They are exceptional by all accounts. Looking forward to storing them and seeing how they develop in taste over the coming months.
• 01 Sep 2013  WEST YORKS, United Kingdom

  Have a tree approx 30 years old, still crops reliably and the apples also keep really well, until March at least.
• 21 Jul 2013  DERBYSHIRE, United Kingdom

  I have two Newton Wonders,but only recently planted.The first planted about 4 years ago. 2011 produced an excellent crop and very tasty.Very poor crop last year. The second tree planted last year and this years crop looks good.
• 22 Mar 2012  NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, United Kingdom

  The Newton Wonder was 'found' as a seedling on the edge of the roof of the Hardings Arms, public house, at Kings Newton in Derbyshire and was grown on to become a tree. The man responsible was Mr Taylor; my great great grandfather. The Taylors went on to become market gardeners in Stanton by bridge, not too far away; where my great grandad had an orchard in a stone masons quarry. and raised his children.
• 17 Dec 2010  WORCS, United Kingdom

  My family held a Glos CC small holding from 1945 until 1985,and we had a mixed orchard of apple and pear trees. The apples were about 50/50 Newtons and Bramleys, with ONE Blenheim. Mum stored them all, after their careful picking. She kept them, well strawed, on the floor of our attic. Picking them over regularly to weed out bad ones, of which there were not that many. The Newtons kept until Christmas, by which time they were matured and wonderful to eat. Still pretty crisp, but with that softer texture that comes with keeping them. My brother and I, now 75 and 70, respectively always new we'd have a good Newton in the toes of our Christmas stockings. Incidentally the pears were Williams and Conference. The Williams kept well too, and were also better, I feel, by the time Christmas came round. However, having passed the old orchard of late, the Newtons need a good pruning and a little TLC. Shame!
• 10 Oct 2010  SUFFOLK, United Kingdom

  I have a very old Newton Wonder apple tree in my garden and the fruit really is amazing. I have to agree with the fact that it is delicious to eat and wonderful to cook with. The amount of fruit that is produced every year is astounding. . a really worthwhile apple tree
• 29 Nov 2009  BERKSHIRE, United Kingdom

  Beautiful Apple, I have one planted in the late 1850's. Orchards were here well before the victorians put up our homes (victorian villa's). So I know it is that age. Knocks a bramley into a cocked hat. Mine has different coloured friuts and slightly different bloom and textured. The colour on one bow is a deep blood red ! Very juicy and crisp when picked, good keeper, and sweet when stored - totally unlike a bitter green and boring bramley bought in a supermarket ! The trunk is huge and hollow, with some port holes. A mini twister has recently damaged the tree very badly, the climate has changed here, the tree had been an old girl 40 years ago, but in the last 5 years the weird winds have damaged more than 40% of the tree. The tree use to throw a huge crop every other year, and 5% crop in between. The best bows have been bought down by the wind when bald and not carrying any weight.. Do not cut large branches off near the trunk, this varienty hates having its limbs cut, and dies back to a port hole eventually when it is unable to push sap to subsidiary branches. Wonderfull flavour - you cant buy this kind of quality, apple vary in size and are round, not flat like a bramley. The king apple on a spur can be huge if thinning is done
• 25 Oct 2009  GLOUCESTERSHIRE, United Kingdom

  We have a small orchard, planted with Bramleys newton Wonder, Cox, Blenheim and Worcesters. the newton Wonder are the best for juicing and make delicious juice and lots of it. I agree this is a better apple than a Bramley
• 11 Oct 2009  DERBY, United Kingdom

  Im sorry Sue, but it was found , not produced in King`s Newton, Melbourne, Derbyshire. The orginal seedling is still in the garden where it was found which is now a pub beer garden. This has been well documented in the Derby Evening Telegraph.
• 03 Sep 2009  NR SWINDON, United Kingdom

  Mine is 35 yrs old and has regular heavy crops. They keep well into the new year. Very vigorous grower and not for the smaller garden.
• 29 Aug 2009  LEICESTERSHIRE, United Kingdom

  As I understand it my gt gt uncle, Newton Fowkes, (c1853) was responsible for producing the Newton Wonder. He had a smallholding at Swannington and Orchard in Bakewells Lane. He was also a local preacher.
• 20 Nov 2008  LUTON, BEDFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom

  My friend has a Newton Wonder in her garden dating back to the 1930's. They are a lovely apple and what a crop she has had this year, fantastic.
• 19 Nov 2008  DERBY, United Kingdom

  Just to inform ... The Newton Wonder was discovered in a garden at King`s Newton, Melbourne, Derbyshire
• 27 Oct 2008  STAMFORD, United States

  Hi eddie I think your apple could be a Yarling Mills and that would be a Cider apple.
• 22 Oct 2008  LONGPARISH HAMPSHIRE, United Kingdom

  I have just discovered that the "unknown" apple tree in our garden is a Newton Wonder, and I have to agree with Edward Buckle- this is a dual purpose apple. We've had it picked straight off the tree as a crisp and sweet eater, as well as a fabulous cooker. We have Bramleys Seedlings too, and in my book the Newton Wonder is better. This year's crop was astoundingly large and heavy individual apples, and lots of them- our best crop in fifteen years.
• 17 Oct 2008  HALESWORTH SUFFOLK UK, United Kingdom

  Fabulous prolific apple - more a cooker/eater than a straight cooker as I eat them every day from the tree until they're gone - last well in cool store if they survive my appetite. In passing do you know the apple Yarling as i was given one and I can't find the history or any acknowledgement - small conical apple with pale pink blush - taste OK but texture mealy - but my plant young may improve with age or in a better season - thanks Yours Eddie Buckle

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Where to buy fresh fruit

The following orchards grow Newton Wonder:

United Kingdom

• England - midlands

  • Walsgrove Farm, Worcester

• England - north

  • Pickering Road Community Orchard, Hull
  • Holly Mount Orchard, Bury
  • Coulton Mill, York

• England - south-east

  • Kimpton Manor Apple Press, Andover

References

• Apples of England (1948)
  Author: Taylor
• Fruit Expert
  Author: Hessayon