Applevariety
Galton
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat-round in shape, introduced in 1915; sweet and soft. Picked in late September.
Origin · Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Released 1915
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 72.50 mmHeight 61.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Galton began
Recorded origin
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
- Released
- 1915
Galton’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Galton
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Northern Spy → GaltonParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 72.50 mm
- height
- 61.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Northern Spy x Unknown
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.