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Rivers' Early Peach
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Rivers of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. Introduced in 1893. Fruits have coarse, rather dry, white flesh with a sweet, aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Early Peach, Rivers' Peach
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- low 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Juiciness
- dry 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
2000 - 083
- Accession name
- Rivers' Early Peach
- Flowering time ›››
- 27th April10% flowering
4th MayFull (80%) flowering
10th 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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