The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Germany

Jansen von Welten

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

Raised by Jansen at Welten, near Aachen, Germany. Fruit was received by Diel, a German pomologist in 1823. Fruits have fairly firm, fine flesh with a sweet, aromatic, nutty flavour.

Sources

  1. Jansen von Welten (accession 1947 - 259), 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 (mid october); the other names.