Skip to content

Apple varieties, Netherlands

Sweet Caroline

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

Raised in 1954 by A.A. Schaap, IVT, Wageningen, Netherlands. Fruits have fairly firm, white, juicy flesh with a very sweet, rather bland flavour.

Where Sweet Caroline came from.

Sources

Sweet Caroline (accession 1968 - 097), 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).