Schoolmaster
syn. MaItre d'Ecole, Schulmeister, Shkolnyi uchitel, The Schoolmaster
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Said to have been raised from seed of a Canadian apple in Old Stamford Grammar School garden or in Herefordshire. Introduced in about 1880 by Thomas Laxton. Received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1880. Fruits have tender, coarse, greenish white flesh with an acid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 23rd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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