The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Canada

Fortosh

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

Introduced 1926. From Ottawa Central Exp Farm, Canada.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

  • Fortosh Canada, by 1926
    • Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
    • Pollen parent Forest
Fortosh
Where Fortosh came from.

Sources

  1. Fortosh (accession 1957 - 195), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october).