Lipton
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. Fruits have creamy white, rather loose textured, moderately juicy, sweet flesh with a fair flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Lipton Canada
- Seed parent Northern Spy United States, about 1800
Sources
- Lipton (accession 1930 - 046), 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 (late august).
