Hume
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1898 at the Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. It was selected in 1916 and introduced in 1921. Fruits have soft, white tinged pink flesh with a sweet flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Hume Canada, 1898
- Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
Sources
- Hume (accession 1925 - 020), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (early october).
