Applevariety
Glorie van Holland
Also known as Glory of Holland
Glory of Holland
A dessert apple with yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in about 1890; sweet and tart. Picked in early October.
Origin · Rockanje, The Netherlands
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Glorie van Holland began
Recorded origin
Rockanje, The Netherlands
Netherlands
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- russet
- low
- ribbing
- absent
- synonyms
- Glory of Holland
- over colour
- Red
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.