Chivers Delight
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by John Chivers Farms Ltd., at Histon, Cambridgeshire in 1936. It is rather susceptible to apple canker. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy with a pleasant flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 71.00 mm
- Height
- 60.50 mm
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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