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Chorister Boy
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Found in a garden in Wiltshire. First recorded in 1890. Introduced by Keynes, Williams & Co., Salisbury. Fruits are soft, juicy and slightly acid with very little flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1934 - 027
- Accession name
- Chorister Boy
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
21st May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019