Hollandbury

Culinary / Dessert apple

Malus domestica Borkh.

Originated in England. It was recorded in 1799. Fruits have soft flesh with a subacid flavour.

Synonyms:

Beare Rouge, Beau Rouge, Bland's Summer, Bland's Summer Pippin, Bon Rouge, Bonne Rouge, Bonne-Rouge, Bonrouge, Hallingbury, Hallingsbury, Hanbury, Hauberry, Hawberry, Hawberry Pippin, Hollandburg Hollandburgh, Hollandbury Pippin, Hollingbury, Horsley Pippin, Howberry Pippin, Howburry Pippin, Howbury Pippin, Imperial Levesey's, Kirk's Admirable, Kirk's Scarlet Admirable, Kirke's Admirable, Kirke's Scarlet Admirable, Kirke's Schone Rambour, Kirke's Schoner Rambour, Kirke's Sondergleichen, la Beau Rouge, le Beau Rouge, Livesey's Imperial, Red Flanders, Scarlet Admirable

Availability

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)

Shape

Flat globose ²

Size

large ²

Ribbing

weak-medium ²

Ground Colour

Yellow ²

Over Colour

Orange ²

Flesh Colour

White ²

Accession No.

2000 - 048

  

Accession name

Hollandbury

Flowering time  ›››

2nd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
13th May90% petal fall

Picking time

Early September ¹

References:

1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.

2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register