Applevariety
Glenton
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, introduced in 1946 and named in 1911; mildly tart. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Ottawa Central Experimental Farm, Ontario, Canada
Released 1946
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed red
- Size
- large
Origin & family
Where Glenton began
Recorded origin
Ottawa Central Experimental Farm, Ontario
Canada
- Released
- 1946
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- parentage
- Northern Spy x Unknown
- fruit size
- large
- over colour
- flushed red
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.