First listed in 1629. It is identical to the variety growing in Isaac Newton’s garden at Woolsthorpe Manor, near Grantham, Lincolnshire. According to the legend Newton was sitting under this tree when an apple fell to the ground and gave him the ideas which led to his law of universal gravitation. The original Isaac Newton tree died in 1814, but trees descending from it by grafting still survive and include the Isaac Newton trees at the National Physics Laboratory. A large culinary apple flushed and heavily ribbed. White, soft flesh, tinged green. Cooks to a sweet puree. Spreading, part tip-bearing tree.
