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Apple varieties, United States

Perrine York

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

Tetraploid. A clone of York Imperial. Found by D.B. Perrine, Centralia, Illinois, USA. Fruits have firm, crisp, moderately tender flesh with a subacid to sweetish, aromatic flavour.

Where Perrine York came from.

Sources

Perrine York (accession 1974 - 264), 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 (late october).