Scarlet Nonpareil

Scarlet Nonpareil in J. Lindley (ed.), The Pomological Magazine (1828-1830). J. Lindley (ed.), The Pomological Magazine (1828–1830), via Wikimedia Commons. Source; public domain.

Origin: Esher, Surrey, United Kingdom, about 1773
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert
Picked: October, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Medium, flat fruit; ground colour green yellow; over-colour orange
Flesh: Cream; fine
Flavour: Subacid and rich
Also called: Ecarlate sans pareille; New Scarlet Nompareil; New Scarlet Nonpareil; New Scarlet Nonpariel; New-Scarlet Nonpareil; Non Pareille Ecarlate; Non-Pareille Ecarlate; Nonpareil Ecarlate; Nonpareil Scarlet; Saint Augustine's Orange; Scharlachroter Nonpareil; Scharlachrothe Nonpareil; Scharlachrother Nonpareil; Sheppard's Nonpareil

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

Raised in about 1773 in the garden of an inn at Esher, Surrey. Received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1901. Fruits have fine, creamy white flesh with a subacid and rich flavour.

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Offspring in the atlas

Oxford Beauty × Gascoyne's Scarlet; United Kingdom, by 1944

Where Scarlet Nonpareil came from.

Sources

Scarlet Nonpareil (accession 1951 - 005), 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); the other names.

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