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Brown's Seedling
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised before 1874 by Brown, a nurseryman at Stamford, Lincolnshire. Fruits have softish flesh with a sweet to subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Russet
- low 2
- Coarseness
- medium 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1946 - 043
- Accession name
- Brown's Seedling
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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