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Encore
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Charles Ross at Welford Park, Newbury, Berkshire. First recorded in 1906. It was introduced in 1908 by J. Cheal of Crawley, Sussex. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1906 and a First Class Certificate in 1908. Fruits have soft, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a subacid flavour. An excellent cooker.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Warner's King x Northern Greening
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 65.50mm 2
- Width
- 87.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- absent 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Greasiness
- Strong 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1921 - 014
- Accession name
- Encore
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
23rd 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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