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Fon's Spring
Apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1948 by Ernest J. Ingleby, Milbury Heath, Falfield, Gloucestershire. Fruits have firm, fairly juicy flesh with a sweet, subacid, faint Cox-like flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1962 - 065
- Accession name
- Fon's Spring
- Flowering time ›››
- 14th May10% flowering
18th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- mid september 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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