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Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in about 1889 by Mr Thomas, Rainham, Kent. It received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1901. Fruits have fine, firm, crisp flesh with a subacid and slightly aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Conical
- Width
- 73.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 73.00 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- absent
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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