Cultivar 1831: Wrights Seedling

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Usage Facet: class=edible; edible_score=1.0; ornamental_score=0.0; inferred_from_taxon=no

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Wrights Seedling is a Minnesota apple described in N. E. Hansen's 1902 bulletin A Study of Northwestern Apples. Hansen gives its origin as Minnesota and links it to the original Shaw planting made about 1852 at Minnesota City, Minnesota. J. S. Harris later exhibited it at the Minnesota State Fair in 1898. [S1]

The fruit is medium sized, oblong conic, and sharply tapering. The skin is yellow, with many minute, obscure white dots. The cavity is regular and russeted. The stem is short. The basin is very narrow, flat, and wrinkled, with a closed calyx. [S1]

The flesh is white, firm, and subacid, with some crabby astringency. Hansen lists it for culinary use rather than dessert quality. Its season is fall. [S1]

Pomological notes place Wrights Seedling among apples with a funnel-shaped tube, marginal stamens, a flat basin, and an open core. [S1]

No direct hardiness zone is stated. Its northern fruit relevance comes from its Minnesota origin, its inclusion in a northwestern apple bulletin, and its link to a mid-19th-century Minnesota City planting. [S1]

The original tree was already dead when Hansen's account was published. The available source does not give parentage, breeder, release date, disease behavior, storage duration beyond fall season, or later breeding use. [S1]

Summary source basis

This summary currently draws chiefly from A Study of Northwestern Apples.

Featured source descriptions

“Said to be one of the original Shaw planting about 1852 at Minnesota City, Minnesota.”
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“Core open; tube funnel-shaped; stamens marginal; flesh white, firm, subacid, with some crabby astringency.”
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“Cavity regular and russeted; stem short; basin very narrow, flat, wrinkled; calyx closed.”
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“Listed under tube funnel-shaped, stamens marginal, with basin flat and core open.”
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14A Study of Northwestern Applesunknown1000p118 p141Flower-tube and floral descriptors list tube-shaped funnel and marginal stamens, with basin flat and core open.; Exhibited by J. S. Harris in 1898 at Minnesota State Fair; original tree is now dead.; Fruit season listed

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14p141description_snippetFlower-tube and floral descriptors list tube-shaped funnel and marginal stamens, with basin flat and core open.Tube funnel-shaped, stamens marginal; Basin flat, core open. Wrights Seedling.page_block:0.90
14p118anecdote_snippetExhibited by J. S. Harris in 1898 at Minnesota State Fair; original tree is now dead.Wrights Seedling-Origin , Minnesota-Fruit medium, oblong conic, sharply tapering; surface yellow; dots white, suffused, minute, numerous, obscure ; cavity regular, russeted; stem short; basin very narrow, flat, wrinkled;page_block:0.90
14p118storage_durationFruit season listed as Fall.Wrights Seedling-Origin , Minnesota-Fruit medium, oblong conic, sharply tapering; surface yellow; dots white, suffused, minute, numerous, obscure ; cavity regular, russeted; stem short; basin very narrow, flat, wrinkled;page_block:0.90
14p118source_reference_abbreviationDocument references exhibit history by name (J.S. Harris) and state fair showing practical provenance, but no source abbreviation expansion appears in visible text.Wrights Seedling-Origin , Minnesota-Fruit medium, oblong conic, sharply tapering; surface yellow; dots white, suffused, minute, numerous, obscure ; cavity regular, russeted; stem short; basin very narrow, flat, wrinkled;page_block:0.90
14p118culinary_useNoted as culinary use.Wrights Seedling-Origin , Minnesota-Fruit medium, oblong conic, sharply tapering; surface yellow; dots white, suffused, minute, numerous, obscure ; cavity regular, russeted; stem short; basin very narrow, flat, wrinkled;page_block:0.90
14p118flavor_profileFlesh is white, firm, subacid, with some crabby astringency.Wrights Seedling-Origin , Minnesota-Fruit medium, oblong conic, sharply tapering; surface yellow; dots white, suffused, minute, numerous, obscure ; cavity regular, russeted; stem short; basin very narrow, flat, wrinkled;page_block:0.90
14p118fruit_colorFruit surface described as yellow with minute, numerous, suffused, obscure white dots.Wrights Seedling-Origin , Minnesota-Fruit medium, oblong conic, sharply tapering; surface yellow; dots white, suffused, minute, numerous, obscure ; cavity regular, russeted; stem short; basin very narrow, flat, wrinkled;page_block:0.90
14p118fruit_sizeFruit described as medium, oblong conic, sharply tapering.Wrights Seedling-Origin , Minnesota-Fruit medium, oblong conic, sharply tapering; surface yellow; dots white, suffused, minute, numerous, obscure ; cavity regular, russeted; stem short; basin very narrow, flat, wrinkled;page_block:0.90
14p118entry_locationOne of the original Shaw planting near Minnesota City, Minnesota (1852 mention in orchard history).Wrights Seedling-Origin , Minnesota-Fruit medium, oblong conic, sharply tapering; surface yellow; dots white, suffused, minute, numerous, obscure ; cavity regular, russeted; stem short; basin very narrow, flat, wrinkled;page_block:0.90
14p118selection_origin_referenceOrigin is stated as Minnesota.Wrights Seedling-Origin , Minnesota-Fruit medium, oblong conic, sharply tapering; surface yellow; dots white, suffused, minute, numerous, obscure ; cavity regular, russeted; stem short; basin very narrow, flat, wrinkled;page_block:0.90

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description_snippetFlower-tube and floral descriptors list tube-shaped funnel and marginal stamens, with basin flat and core open.0.95
anecdote_snippetExhibited by J. S. Harris in 1898 at Minnesota State Fair; original tree is now dead.0.90
storage_durationFruit season listed as Fall.0.84
source_reference_abbreviationDocument references exhibit history by name (J.S. Harris) and state fair showing practical provenance, but no source abbreviation expansion appears in visible text.0.78
culinary_useNoted as culinary use.0.90
flavor_profileFlesh is white, firm, subacid, with some crabby astringency.0.85
fruit_colorFruit surface described as yellow with minute, numerous, suffused, obscure white dots.0.87
fruit_sizeFruit described as medium, oblong conic, sharply tapering.0.90
entry_locationOne of the original Shaw planting near Minnesota City, Minnesota (1852 mention in orchard history).0.82
selection_origin_referenceOrigin is stated as Minnesota.0.95

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