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Milton
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1909 at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, New York, USA. by Richard Wellington. Introduced by the N.Y.S. Fruit Testing Association in 1923. Fruits have soft, fine, very white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- White Transparent x McIntosh
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 60.00mm 2
- Width
- 67.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1929 - 039
- Accession name
- Milton
- Flowering time ›››
- 1st May10% flowering
6th MayFull (80%) flowering
12th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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