Summer Rose

Summer Rose, painted by Ellen Isham Schutt in 1905 for the US Department of Agriculture. Ellen Isham Schutt. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: New Jersey, United States, by 1806
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert
Picked: August, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: ground colour very pale greenish yellow; over-colour flushed orange-red, streaked carmine
Flesh: White
Flavour: Slightly subacid
Also called: French Reinette; Harvest Apple; Lippencott's Early; Lippencott's Eary; Lippincot's Early; Lippincott; Lippincott's Early; Lodge's Early; Wolman's Harvest; Woolman's Early; Woolman's Harvest; Woolman's Striped Harvest

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

Originated in New Jersey, USA. Mentioned in 1806. Fruits have tender, fine, white flesh with a slightly subacid flavour.

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Summer Rose (accession 1950 - 186), 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 (late august); the other names.

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