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Northland Seedling
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at Northland Cottage, Tetbury, Gloucestershire by A.P. Kitcat. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1930. Fruits have firm, crisp, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Gloucestershire Orchard Trust collection (link to website)
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 44.00mm 2
- Width
- 57.00mm 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1930 - 060
- Accession name
- Northland Seedling
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
8th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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