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Garnet
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by W.Seabrook & Sons Ltd., Boreham, Essex. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1936. Fruits have firm, crisp, fine flesh with a slightly subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 51.00mm 2
- Width
- 70.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1936 - 028
- Accession name
- Garnet
- Flowering time ›››
- 5th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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