The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Germany

Etlins Reinette

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

Originally found on the Landenberg estate of pomologist Etlin, in Germany. It was new in 1866. Fruits have fine, crisp flesh with a sweet, slightly subacid, aromatic flavour.

Sources

  1. Etlins Reinette (accession 1947 - 264), 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.