McSweet
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised at the Central Experiment Farm, Ottawa, Canada. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1927. Fruits have firm, crisp, white, tender, juicy flesh with a fairly sweet and distinctive moderate flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- McSweet Canada, by 1927
- Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
Sources
- McSweet (accession 1957 - 201), 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 september).
