Newtosh
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by the Horticulture Division, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. It was selected in 1922. Fruits have firm, crisp, tender, greenish white flesh with a sweetish subacid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Newtosh Canada, by 1922
- Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
- Pollen parent Newtown Pippin United States, early 18th century
Sources
- Newtosh (accession 1957 - 203), 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 september).
