knotted kernal

We imported Knotted Kernel (aka Knott’s Kernel) from English cider historian and collector, John Teiser in collaboration with the USDA APHIS program. We have not yet had the fruit, but we presume it to be the same as the Knott’s Kernel described by Robert Hogg. Hogg in The Fruit Manual, 1884. Hogg calls it a “useful early [season] culinary apple… medium-sized; roundish and flattened, or obtusely ovate, the sides have five prominent angles, which are most acute from the middle to the crown. Skin, with a citron-coloured ground, considerably covered with numerous broken stripes of dark purplish red which extend more or less over the whole surface… Flesh, white, tender, crisp, juicy, and sweet, with a brisk acidity.” We look forward to seeing and using the fruit in cider and cooking. Currently growing at Super Chilly Farm.