Ashton Brown Jersey
Cider 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 name
Ashton Brown Jersey
Flowering time
6th May 10% flowering
8th May Full (80%) flowering
15th May 90% petal fall
Picking time
Mid November 1
Size
small 1
Type
Cider 1
Shape
Globose conical 1
Height
49.72 mm 1
Width
56.37 mm 1
Ribbing
weak-medium 1
Crown
very weak 1
Ground Colour
Green yellow 1
Over Colour (Amount)
medium 1
Over Colour
Orange 1
Over Colour (Pattern)
striped/washed out 1
Russet
low 1
Juiciness
dry-medium 1
Flesh Colour
Cream 1
References:
1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register