Violette

Violette, painted by Elsie Lower Pomeroy in 1904 for the US Department of Agriculture. Elsie Lower Pomeroy. U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD 20705. Source; public domain.

Origin: France, by the early 1600s
Parentage: Parents unknown
Uses: Dessert
Picked: September, in Brogdale, Kent (the National Fruit Collection)
Skin: Medium, oblong fruit; ground colour yellow; over-colour pink
Flesh: White; firm, fine
Flavour: Subacid and slightly aromatic
Also called: Black Apple; Calville Rayee d'Automne; De Quatre- Gouts; de Violette; Des Quatre-Gouts; Framboise; Framboox Apple; Gros Pomme Noire d'Amerique; Grosse Pomme Noir d'Amerique; Grosse Pomme Noire d'Amerique; Pomme de Violette; Pomme Violette; Quatre Gouts; Reinette des Quatre-Gouts; Reinette Violette; Violet; Violet Apple; Violette Apple; Violette de Mars; Violette de Quatre Gouts; Violette de Quatre-Gouts; Violette des Quatre-Gouts; Violetter Apfel; Winter Veilchen

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

Originated in France. Known in the early 1600s. Fruits have firm, fine, white flesh with a subacid and slightly aromatic flavour.

Sources

Violette (accession 1945 - 002), 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); the other names.

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