Chad's Favourite
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by M.B. Crane at the John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, London. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1939 and named in 1952. Fruits have coarse, soft flesh with a sweet subacid, aromatic flavour.
Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Parentage:
Northern Greening x Cox's Orange Pippin
Size
medium-large 2
Type
Dessert 2
Shape
Truncate conical 2
Height
59.50 mm 2
Width
68.50 mm 2
Ribbing
weak-medium 2
Ground Colour
Yellow 2
Over Colour (Amount)
high 2
Over Colour
Red 2
Over Colour (Pattern)
striped 2
Firmness
soft 2
Coarseness
coarse 2
Flesh Colour
White 2
Accession name
Chad's Favourite
Flowering time
5th May 10% flowering
10th May Full (80%) flowering
18th May 90% petal fall
Picking time
Early October 1
References:
1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register