Summer John
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in County Fermanagh, Ireland. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1949 but thought to be much older than this. Fruits have firm, rather coarse, white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 60.50 mm
- Height
- 47.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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