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Glenton
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at Ottawa Central Experimental Farm, Ontario, Canada. It was named in 1911 and introduced in 1946. Fruits have softish flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Northern Spy x Unknown
Accession No.
1967 - 070
- Accession name
- Glenton
- Flowering time ›››
- 14th May10% flowering
18th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Height
- 68.13 mm 1
- Width
- 79.02 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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