An old English apple variety, Reverend W. Wilks (Malus domestica 'Reverend W. Wilks') is the result of the crossing of the apple varieties Peasgood's Nonsuch and Ribston Pippin and was first introduced in Buckinghamshire in 1904.   Reverend W. Wilks has a nice compact form and produces very large fruit which have tremendous baking ability.  They cook to a light, sweet, pale, lemon purée, hardly needing any sugar. The best early cooker.

Month of Picking: August

Type of Apple: Cooking

Self-fertile/Not self-fertile: This apple is not self-fertile and requires another apple to act as a pollination partner. 

This apple is in flowering period is C2. 

How to chose a suitable pollination partner.  

To make it easy to match this apple with a suitable pollination partner(s) we have used a series of codes, which are C1, C2, C3, C4 and C5 and relate to flowering periods.  Every apple variety we sell will have one of these codes. 

The code we have given this apple tree means that you need to find another apple with the same code or one less or one more, so for example if the apple is code C2, then another apple variety with code C3 or C1 would be necessary to act as a reliable pollination partner.

This variety of apple tree is supplied in a 12 litre container, which means that the tree can be planted any time of the year and with better results than either bare-root or rootballed trees.

Choosing the type of tree and rootstock:

Semi-Vigorous Rootstock MM106 (Bush), supplied at a height of between 1.25 and 1.50 metres and the tree will reach an approximate height of 3.6 metres