Beauty of Kent

Beauty of Kent, painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore in 1894 for the US Department of Agriculture. Deborah Griscom Passmore. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: United Kingdom, by about 1820
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Cooking
Picked: September, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Large, conical fruit; ground colour yellow; over-colour red, striped
Flesh: Greenish; firm
Flavour: Subacid, faint pleasant
Also called: Beaute de Kent; Bellezza di Kent; Countess of Warwick; Gadd's Seedling; Kent Beauty; Kentish Beauty; Kentish Broading; Kentish Pippin; Kentskaya krasavitsa; Peppin Kent; Pippin Kent; Reinette Grosse d'Angleterre; Schoner aus Kent; Wooling's Favourite; Worling's Favourite

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it¹:

Thought to be of English origin. Introduced in about 1820. Received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1901. Fruits are coarse textured, juicy and subacid, with a faint pleasant flavour.

Sources

Beauty of Kent (accession 1941 - 021), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late september); the other names.

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