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Galton
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by W.T.Macoun, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. Introduced in 1915. Fruits have soft flesh with a sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Northern Spy x Unknown
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 61.00mm 2
- Width
- 72.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1930 - 047
- Accession name
- Galton
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering
23rd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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