Ashton Brown Jersey

Apple

Malus domestica Borkh.

Grown at the National Fruit and Cider Institute, Long Ashton, Bristol in 1903. Trees were also grown in some Herefordshire orchards in the 1920s and 1930s. Trees are very slow coming into cropping. Fruits are small-medium in size with a sweet, astringent, woolly textured flesh. Produces a soft, full-bodied, medium bittersweet cider.

Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)

Accession No.
1992 - 107   fingerprint   check_circle

Accession name
Ashton Brown Jersey

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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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