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Apple varieties, United States

Prairie Spy

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

Originated at Excelsior, USA by the University of Minnesota Fruit Breeding Farm. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1951. Fruits have firm, fine, greenish white flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.

Where Prairie Spy came from.

Sources

Prairie Spy (accession 1951 - 062), 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).