Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Harvest Festival
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in about 1955 by Mrs Helen Lloyd of Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire. Fruit quality is not as good as Grenadier. It cooks reasonably well but has little flavour.
Sources
- Harvest Festival (accession 1968 - 190), 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 september).
