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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Hodge's Seedling

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

Originated in the West of England. It was known in 1876. Fruits have firm, crisp flesh with a subacid flavour.

Sources

  1. Hodge's Seedling (accession 1948 - 024), 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).