Shoesmith
syn. H. Shoesmith
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by George Carpenter at Byfleet, Surrey, England. First exhibited in 1930. Fruits have very white, tinged green, soft, very juicy flesh with a subacid flavour. Cooks well.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Ellipsoid
- Width
- 57.00 mm
- Height
- 64.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- low
Source · National Fruit Collection
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