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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Colonel Vaughan

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

Originated in Kent. It was known in the late 1600s. Fruits have firm, white, sometimes stained red flesh with a sweet to subacid flavour.

Colonel Vaughan
Where Colonel Vaughan came from.

Sources

  1. Colonel Vaughan (accession 2000 - 028), 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.