Sir John Thornycroft
syn. Sir John Thorneycroft
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Collister, gardener to Sir John Thornycroft, Bembridge, Isle of Wight. Introduced in 1913 by Bunyard of Maidstone. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1911. Fruits have hard, tough, coarse flesh with a slightly sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- very firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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