Applevariety
Arthur W. Barnes
Also known as A. W. Barnes
A. W. Barnes
A cooking apple, broad round conical in shape, green-yellow skin, greenish flesh. Picked in mid-September. Raised in 1902; introduced in 1928. Crisp.
Origin · Eaton Gardens, Chester
Released 1928
Taste & texture
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- largeWidth 73.00 mmHeight 59.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Arthur W. Barnes began
Recorded origin
Eaton Gardens, Chester
- Released
- 1928
Arthur W. Barnes’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Arthur W. Barnes
Eaton Gardens, Chester
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 73.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 59.50 mm
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- synonyms
- A. W. Barnes
- parentage
- Gascoyne's Scarlet x Cox's Orange Pippin
- coarseness
- medium
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Red
- 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.