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George Carpenter
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1902 by George Carpenter at West Hall Gardens, Byfleet, Surrey. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy, sweet flesh with a good aromatic flavour somewhat like Blenheim Orange.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Blenheim Orange x King of the Pippins
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 64.00mm 2
- Width
- 70.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 2
Accession No.
1957 - 163
- Accession name
- George Carpenter
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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