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Hope Cottage Seedling
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1900 by Mrs Oakey at Hope Cottage, Rochford, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Paramor)
- Parentage:
- King of the Pippins x Unknown
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 50.00mm 2
- Width
- 61.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- low 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1949 - 021
- Accession name
- Hope Cottage Seedling
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019