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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Beauty of Stoke

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

Raised at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire by Mr Doe and introduced by Veitch. Recorded in 1889. It received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1890. Fruits have coarse, dry flesh with a subacid flavour.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

Corry's Wonder × Lane's Prince Albert; United Kingdom, 1917

Where Beauty of Stoke came from.

Sources

Beauty of Stoke (accession 2000 - 019), 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 (mid october).