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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Dewdney's Seedling

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

Raised at Barrowby, Grantham, Lincolnshire by Mr Dewdney in about 1850. Fruits have moderately firm, juicy and very acid flesh.

Dewdney's Seedling
Where Dewdney's Seedling came from.

Sources

  1. Dewdney's Seedling (accession 1939 - 011), 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 september); the other names.