William Peters
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Peters of Leatherhead, Surrey, England. Recorded in 1917 in which year it received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits have soft, very tender, rather coarse, yellowish white flesh with a sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early September
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 73.50 mm
- Height
- 62.50 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- very weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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