The World of Apples

Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Lord Clyde

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

Raised by B.W. Witham, Reddish, Stockport, Cheshire. It was catalogued in 1866. Fruits have soft, fine, greenish-white flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.

Lord Clyde
Where Lord Clyde came from.

Sources

  1. Lord Clyde (accession 1946 - 079), 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 (early october).