Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Bedfordshire Foundling
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Thought to have originated in England in about 1800. Fruits are firm, juicy, a little coarse-textured and subacid. Cooks well.
Sources
- Bedfordshire Foundling (accession 2000 - 020), 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 (early october); the other names.
