Gascoyne's Scarlet
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Mr Gascoyne at Bapchild Court, Sittingbourne, Kent. It was introduced in 1871 by nurseryman G. Bunyard & Co., Maidstone, Kent. Received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1887. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, slightly juicy, sweet flesh with very little flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Cramoisi de Gascoyne, Cramoisie de Gascogne, Cramoisie de Gascoigne, Friedrich August von Sachesen, Gascoigne's Scarlet, Gascoigne's Seedling, Gascoignes Scharlachapfel, Gascoine, Gascoygne's Scarlet, Gascoygne's Scarlet Seedling, Gascoygne's Seedling, Gascoynes Scarlet, Gascoynes Scarlet Seedling, Gascoynes Scharlachroter, Gascoynes Scharlachroter Samling, Malinovoe Gaskonskoe, Rhum von England, Schoner von Rusdorf
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Westhope)
- Mother to:
- Oxford Beauty
- Arthur W. Barnes
- Millicent Barnes
Accession No.
1957 - 181
- Accession name
- Gascoyne's Scarlet
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering 22nd May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Height
- 70.74 mm 1
- Width
- 82.20 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Pink 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/washed out 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Juiciness
- dry 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1


- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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