Applevariety
Alton
A dessert apple, green skin. Picked in late-August. Raised in 1923; introduced in 1938.
Origin · New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
Released 1938
Taste & texture
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour Green
- Size
- small
Origin & family
Where Alton began
Recorded origin
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
United States
- Released
- 1938
Alton’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Alton
New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Early McIntosh → AltonParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- small
- type
- Dessert
- parentage
- Early McIntosh x New York 845 (Red Canada X Yellow Transparent
- ground colour
- Green
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.