Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Hambledon Deux Ans
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Originated in Hambledon, Hampshire, England in about 1750. Fruits have very firm, coarse-textured, rather dry flesh, which is a little sweet and slightly acid with a faint aromatic flavour. Rather prone to bitter pit.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Caudal Market × Lane's Prince Albert; United Kingdom, by 1953
Sources
- Hambledon Deux Ans (accession 1975 - 019), 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.
