The World of Apples

Apple varieties, New Zealand

Gene Pitney

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

Raised in 1962 at the request of one of Gene Pitney’s fans, Miss Juliah Couper, at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Havelock North, New Zealand. It was introduced in 1964. Fruits have firm, juicy flesh with a sweet flavour.

Gene Pitney
Where Gene Pitney came from.

Sources

  1. Gene Pitney (accession 1969 - 070), 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 (mid october).
  • Photograph of Braeburn apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Braeburn

    A Nelson chance seedling grown commercially from 1952; DNA names Delicious and Sturmer Pippin as its parents

    New Zealand, by 1952

  • Photograph of Captain Kidd apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Captain Kidd

    New Zealand, 1962

  • Photograph of Cox's Early Export apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Cox's Early Export

    New Zealand, by 1950

  • Photograph of Dillington Beauty apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Dillington Beauty

    New Zealand, by 1872

  • Photograph of Freyberg apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Freyberg

    New Zealand, 1934

  • Photograph of Gala apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Gala

    Raised by J. H. Kidd at Greytown, New Zealand, about 1934 from Kidd's Orange Red and Golden Delicious

    New Zealand, about 1934

  • Photograph of Galaxy apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Galaxy

    New Zealand, 1985

  • Hidala

    New Zealand, 1981

All 24 varieties from New Zealand