Milton
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1909 at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, USA. by Richard Wellington. Introduced by the N.Y.S. Fruit Testing Association in 1923. Fruits have soft, fine, very white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 1st May (10%) · 6th May (full) · 12th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 67.00 mm
- Height
- 60.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- high-very high
Source · National Fruit Collection
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