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Apple varieties, United States

McLellan

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

Raised in about 1780 in a seedling orchard at Woodstock, Connecticut, USA. Fruits have fairly firm, fine, very tender flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.

Where McLellan came from.

Sources

McLellan (accession 1952 - 124), 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.