The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Ukraine

Burchardt's Reinette

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

Raised by Von Hartwiss, Director of the Royal Garden at Nikita, Crimea, Russia. Recorded in 1863. Fruits have crisp, white flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.

Sources

  1. Burchardt's Reinette (accession 1947 - 065), 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.