Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Scarlet Crofton
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Taken from England to Ireland in the late 1500s or early 1600s and reintroduced to England in 1819. Fruits have firm, somewhat coarse, white flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Sources
- Scarlet Crofton (accession 1950 - 073), 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 september); the other names.
