Applevariety
Advance
Also known as Laxton's Advance
Laxton's Advance
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and soft. Picked in early August.
Origin · Bedford
Released 1929
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 65.00 mmHeight 50.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Advance began
Recorded origin
Bedford
- Released
- 1929
Advance’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Advance
Bedford
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 65.00 mm
- height
- 50.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Laxton's Advance
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Gladstone
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.