Applevariety
Gladstone
Also known as Gladston +8
Gladston · Jackson's Seedling · Lord Gladstone · Mister Gladstone · Monsieur Gladstone · Mr. Gladstone · Scarlet Pippin · Striped Quarrenden · W. E. Gladstone
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, conical in shape, introduced in 1868; aromatic, juicy, crisp and soft. Picked in early August.
Released 1868
Taste & texture
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Gladstone began
- Released
- 1868
Gladstone’s family
9 varieties · 8 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Gladstone
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
- Conical
- width
- 57.00 mm
- height
- 51.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Gladston, Jackson's Seedling, Lord Gladstone, Mister Gladstone, Monsieur Gladstone, Mr. Gladstone, Scarlet Pippin, Striped Quarrenden, W. E. Gladstone
- father to
- Feltham Beauty Advance Laxton's Early Crimson Langley Pippin
- mother to
- Braintree Seedling Laxton's Leader
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 On the tree at the UK National Fruit Collection.