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Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received by NFT 1936. From Essex, Chelmsford, Boreham, England. Raised by W. Seabrook & Sons Ltd. Subsequently withdrawn by Seabrook and discarded by NFT. Possibly in existence.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 11th May (10%) · 16th May (full) · 24th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate, conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 64 mm
- Over colour
- variable orange or bright scarlet flush, deeper stripes
- Russet type
- a little russet at base
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 51-57 mm
- Skin texture
- rather greasy
- Flesh texture
- crisp
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Oblong
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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