Advance
syn. Laxton's Advance
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at Bedford by Laxton Bros. Ltd., in 1908 and introduced by them in 1929. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1932. Fruits have soft, fine flesh with a sweet, subacid, aromatic flavour. Trees tend to be prone to mildew and canker.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early August
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 65.00 mm
- Height
- 50.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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