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Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Charles Ross at Welford Park, Newbury, Berkshire. First recorded in 1906. It was introduced in 1908 by J. Cheal of Crawley, Sussex. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1906 and a First Class Certificate in 1908. Fruits have soft, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a subacid flavour. An excellent cooker.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 23rd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 87.00 mm
- Height
- 65.50 mm
- Ribbing
- absent
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Strong
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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