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Apple varieties, United States

Jewett's Fine Red

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

Said to have originated in Hollis, New Hampshire, USA. First recorded in 1842. Fruits have fine, tender flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.

Jewett's Fine Red
Where Jewett's Fine Red came from.

Sources

  1. Jewett's Fine Red (accession 1952 - 119), 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 september); the other names.
  2. Ploidy level (descriptor 115159), study MALUS.PLOIDYDETERMINATION.2008, USDA Agricultural Research Service, GRIN-Global, 2008. Supports: its ploidy, diploid, measured by flow cytometry on accession PI 644185 of the USDA apple collection at Geneva, New York.

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