Early McIntosh
syn. Early Mac Intosh
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Richard Wellington at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York from seed sown in 1909. It was introduced in 1923. Fruits have crisp, white flesh which is often tinged pink beneath the skin, with a sweet, subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 58.50 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 52.00 mm
- Ribbing
- weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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