Scotia
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised at Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada. Selected in 1948 and introduced in 1961. Fruits have soft, melting, white flesh with a sweet flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Scotia Canada, 1948
- Seed parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
Sources
- Scotia (accession 1965 - 027), 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 (late august).
