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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Found on the property of Judge White, Woodbury, New Jersey, USA. Propagated by William Parry in 1865. Fruits have crisp, very tender flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, aromatic
- Ribbing
- not ribbed (usually)
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Over colour
- sometimes faintly flushed
- Russet type
- many dots
- Flesh colour
- tinged yellow
- Flesh texture
- moderately fine, crisp, very tender
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 84.49 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 70.39 mm
- Russet
- absent
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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