Summer Rose
syn. French Reinette, Harvest Apple, Lippencott's Early, Lippencott's Eary, Lippincot's Early, Lippincott, Lippincott's Early, Lodge's Early, Wolman's Harvest, Woolman's Early, Woolman's Harvest, Woolman's Striped Harvest
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in New Jersey, USA. Mentioned in 1806. Fruits have tender, fine, white flesh with a slightly subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Ribbing
- sometimes slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium to large
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 59-71 mm
- Over colour
- flushed orange-red, streaked carmine
- Russet type
- occasional russet patches
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 51-58 mm
- Skin texture
- dotted
- Flesh texture
- tender, fine
- Ground colour
- very pale greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 69.00 mm
- Height
- 57.77 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- low-medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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