Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Improved Dove
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
A seedling thought to have originated in Somerset in the early 1900s. A mild, bittersweet variety.
Sources
- Improved Dove (accession 1989 - 090), 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 october).
