Beauty of Bath
syn. Báthské jablko, Batskaya krasavitsa, Cooling's Beauty of Bath, Frumos de Bath, Krasivoe iz Bata, Schoner aus Bath, Schoner von Bath, Schonheit aus Bath, Schonheit von Bath
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated at Bailbrook, Bath, Somerset and introduced by Cooling of Bath in about 1864. Received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1887. This variety was once the most important early commercial apple in the U.K. Fruits are soft, juicy, sweet and a little acid, with a distinctive flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early August
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 64 mm
- Over colour
- flushed and striped red
- Russet type
- rough
- Flesh colour
- yellowish, stained red
- Fruit height
- 45 mm
- Flesh texture
- soft
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Flat
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- absent
- Firmness
- soft
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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