Maidstone Favourite
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by G. Bunyard & Co., Maidstone, Kent. It received an Award of Merit in 1913 from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy, sweet flesh with a pleasant distinctive flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 2nd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 54.00 mm
- Height
- 48.50 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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