Chorister Boy
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Found in a garden in Wiltshire. First recorded in 1890. Introduced by Keynes, Williams & Co., Salisbury. Fruits are soft, juicy and slightly acid with very little flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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