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Apple varieties, France

Jeanne Hardy

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

Raised in 1878 by M. Hardy at the School of Horticulture, Versailles, France and named after Jeanne Hardy, his daughter. Fruits have soft, juicy, sweet flesh with no particular flavour.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Jeanne Hardy France, 1878
- Seed parent Aport Russia, late 18th century

Where Jeanne Hardy came from.

Sources

Jeanne Hardy (accession 1939 - 018), 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 (mid october); the other names.