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Linda
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. It first fruited in 1908 and introduced in about 1925. Fruits have fairly crisp, tender, white flesh with a sweet, subacid and aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Langford Beauty x Unknown
- Father to:
- Karmen
- Lindel
Accession No.
1957 - 198
- Accession name
- Linda
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
13th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 62.66 mm 1
- Width
- 70.08 mm 1
- Ribbing
- absent 1
- Crown
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Pink 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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