Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Glass Apple
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated from the Tamar Valley, Cornwall. It was known in 1934. Fruits have crisp, slightly coarse flesh with a slightly sweet and acid flavour.
Sources
- Glass Apple (accession 1954 - 027), 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 august); the other names.
