George Carpenter
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1902 by George Carpenter at West Hall Gardens, Byfleet, Surrey. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy, sweet flesh with a good aromatic flavour somewhat like Blenheim Orange.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 70.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 64.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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