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Ontario
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Charles Arnold at Paris, Ontario, Canada in about 1820. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1898. Fruits have crisp, juicy flesh with a subacid flavour. Cooks well, breaking up completely. Tends to bruise easily.
- Synonyms:
- Ontarioapfel
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Wagener x Northern Spy
- Mother to:
- Schweizer Orange
- Juno
- Sports:
- Ontario (4n)
- Geneva Ontario
Accession No.
1923 - 058
- Accession name
- Ontario
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- medium-large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- mottled/washed out 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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