Crawley Beauty
syn. Ratcliff Sargeant, Ratcliffe Sargeant
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Found in a cottage garden in Crawley, Sussex in about 1870 and introduced in 1906 by nurserymen J. Cheal & Sons of Crawley. It appears to be identical with French variety Novelle France. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912. Fruits have slightly coarse-textured, rather dry flesh with a subacid, slightly sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 24th May (10%) · 29th May (full) · 6th June (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 70.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 53.00 mm
- Ribbing
- absent
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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