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Melon
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in about 1800 with Heman Chapin, East Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York, USA from seed brought from Connecticut. Introduced in 1845. Fruits have firm, fine, crisp, tender, yellowish flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Amerikanischer Melonen Apfel, Amerikansk Melonaeble, Arnerikanischer Melonenapfel, Arnerikansk Melon, Melon Apple, Melon d'Arnerique, Melon de Norton, Melon Norton, Norton, Norton Watermelon, Norton's Melon, Pomme Melon d'Amerique, Pomme Norton, Watermelon
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 63.00mm 2
- Width
- 76.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
1921 - 004
- Accession name
- Melon
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
21st May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, November 2015