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Williams Favourite
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in about 1750 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA. Brought to notice in 1830. Fruits have tender, greenish white flesh with a subacid, aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Early, Early Red, Favorite, Favorite de William, Favourite Red, Fruher William, Lady's Apple, Liubimoe Villyama, Queen, Red, William's Early, William's Favorite, William's Favourite, William's Liebling, William's Red, Williams, Williams Early, Williams Early Red, Williams Favorit, Williams Favorite, Williams Favorite Red, Williams Favourite Red, Williams Liebling, Williams Red, Williams' Early, Williams' Early Red, Williams' Favorite, Williams' Favorite Red, Williams' Favourite, Williams' Favourite Red, Williams' Liebling, Williams' Red, Williams's Favorite, Williams's Favourite
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 52.50mm 2
- Width
- 56.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1957 - 233
- Accession name
- Williams Favourite
- Flowering time ›››
- 8th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering 21st May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Late August 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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