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Apple varieties, United Kingdom

Smiler

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

Raised at Clandon, Surrey by A. Simmonds. Recorded in 1934. Fruits have firm, moderately crisp, fine, white tinged green flesh with a moderately sweet, slightly acid, slightly bitter flavour.

Family tree

Offspring in the atlas

Winter Peach × Snovit; United States, by 1853

Where Smiler came from.

Sources

Smiler (accession 1935 - 001), 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).