Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Grange's Pearmain
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised before 1829 by James Grange, market gardener at Kingsland, Middlesex. It was introduced by Dickson of Chester. Fruits have crisp flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
Sources
- Grange's Pearmain (accession 1949 - 135), 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.
