Sandow
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Selected in 1912 at the Central Experiment Farm, Ottawa, Canada. Introduced in 1935. Fruits have firm, coarse, tender, creamy white flesh with a sweet to fairly acid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Sandow Canada, 1912
- Seed parent Northern Spy United States, about 1800
Sources
- Sandow (accession 1930 - 044), 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 october).
