Hope Cottage Seedling
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1900 by Mrs Oakey at Hope Cottage, Rochford, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 61.00 mm
- Height
- 50.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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