Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Smart's Prince Arthur
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised by Smart, near Sittingbourne, Kent. First described in 1883. Fruits have extremely firm, fine-textured, rather dry flesh with a fairly sweet, little acid and no distinctive flavour.
Sources
- Smart's Prince Arthur (accession 1957 - 261), 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 (early october); the other names.
