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Maidstone Favourite
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by G. Bunyard & Co., Maidstone, Kent. It received an Award of Merit in 1913 from the Royal Horticultural Society. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy, sweet flesh with a pleasant distinctive flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Alexander x Beauty of Bath
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 48.50mm 2
- Width
- 54.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- very weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1924 - 001
- Accession name
- Maidstone Favourite
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid August 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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