Stonetosh
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised in 1909 by Horticulture Division, Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. Introduced in 1923. Fruits have rather soft, white flesh with a moderately sweet and slightly acid flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Stonetosh Canada, 1909
- Seed parent Loddington United Kingdom, by about 1820
- Pollen parent McIntosh Canada, 1811
Sources
- Stonetosh (accession 1925 - 022), 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 (early october); the other names.
