Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Fletcher's Prolific
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Assumed to be of UK origin. It was first recorded in 1888. Fruits have soft, fine flesh with a little subacid and sweet flavour.
Sources
- Fletcher's Prolific (accession 1945 - 072), 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 (late october); the other names.
